Seth takes a closer look at Rudy Giuliani’s meltdown on live television and Trump trying to overturn the will of Michigan voters.
No amusing acronyms. Trump is immensely dangerous to democracy and I’m terrified of the next 62 days till he’s gone.
amazing that we still are at the “Fuck Trump” stage of the election.
I have a seething loathesome rage for all these cretins
Here are the two Michigan legislators who are going to meet Trump tomorrow. Write them, call them:
Lee Chatfield
Michigan Speaker of the House
LeeChatfield@house.mi.gov
Office #:[no phone numbers allowed]
Mike Shirkey
Michigan Senate Majority Leader
SenMShirkey@senate.michigan.gov
Office #:[no phone numbers allowed]
“It’s incredibly dangerous that they are even entertaining the conversation because we all know what the law is in Michigan,” Gov. Whitmer says, discussing report on Michigan GOP lawmakers meeting with Pres. Trump at the White House Friday. “This is an embarrassment to the state” pic.twitter.com/SfwD9DHkXy
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 20, 2020
A coup is a process. It’s not a single dramatic event where big, loud bad guys storm the castle in one evening and there’s nothing left but smoke in the morning. The castle is gradually being stormed right now. Trump cult is dead serious.
— Mollie Katzen (@MollieKatzen) November 20, 2020
Trump campaign calls for Georgia not to certify its election results
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 20, 2020
re: #4 thecommodore
Here are the two Michigan legislators who are going to meet Trump tomorrow. Write them, call them:
Lee Chatfield
Michigan Speaker of the House
LeeChatfield@house.mi.gov
Office #:[no phone numbers allowed]Mike Shirkey
Michigan Senate Majority Leader
SenMShirkey@senate.michigan.gov
Office #:[no phone numbers allowed]
Their voicemail boxes are full.
Tucker Carlson must have been paid off handsomely by Soros.
Here’s the clip. Tucker says his show is open minded — “we literally do UFO segments” — but Sidney Powell has produced no evidence of malicious software vote-switching and others in Trump campaign say they haven’t seen any evidence from her either. pic.twitter.com/XlvTEla8Zf
— Emily Larsen (@emilyelarsen) November 20, 2020
Former VA Official Claims Refusal to Discredit Female Veteran Who Complained of Sexual Assault Led to Firing https://t.co/m20XiqgT32
— Naveed Jamali (@NaveedAJamali) November 20, 2020
Jared and Ivanka committed the stupid and arrogant mistake of thinking that the circumstances they walked into after the 2016 election were permanent. It’s all going to run out in two months, and it’s never coming back. https://t.co/5qy7lr0550
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 20, 2020
re: #3 BigPapa
I have a seething loathesome rage for all these cretins
I have a difficult time keeping my anger at Republicans at bay. For example, if Trump were subject to capital punishment in any of the gruesomely ‘crowd-pleasing’ ways from centuries ago, that would brighten my day immensely.
This is must watch TV: Rachel Maddow talks about her partner Susan’s struggle with Covid. This will take your breath away. pic.twitter.com/mO4Q0DDzIc
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) November 20, 2020
I keep forgetting that Sidney Powell was Flynn’s lawyer. That’s all the info I need to know that she is a nut case.
re: #15 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Is “this will take your breath away” the most appropriate language to describe a report on someone suffering from COVID?
To be clear, I think this was just poor word choice rather than anything malicious but I do think it was slightly poor word choice….
re: #11 thecommodore
Tucker Carlson must have been paid off handsomely by Soros.
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Thanks Tucker
Trump is asking the Michigan legislators to meet with him in person because he knows that way he cannot be wiretapped or listened in on. Lesson learned from the Ukraine scheme.
— Lincoln Party™ 🇺🇸Exploratory Committee (@Lincoln_Party_) November 20, 2020
re: #19 Patricia Kayden
I would love to be the fly on the wall in that meeting.
re: #13 jaunte
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Daddy’s pardon power doesn’t extend into Albany, Vanky. Bye bye I’m sure you’ll learn to sing sing in time.
re: #21 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Daddy’s pardon power doesn’t extend into Albany, Vanky. Bye bye I’m sure you’ll learn to sing sing in time.
And her brother will testify against her to make sure she is out of the way….
re: #10 GlutenFreeJesus
😂 The one on the right is passable, I guess.
re: #23 b.d. (We Won!)
And her brother will testify against her to make sure she is out of the way….
Yep can’t wait to see this whole rotten pack of wolves turn on each other.
— The Feel Good Page ❤️ (@akkitwts) November 20, 2020
re: #25 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yep can’t wait to see this whole rotten pack of wolves turn on each other.
Wolves have too much loyalty to the pack.
Lets be honest with ourselves with what they are… rats in a sack…
re: #15 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Rachel is so adorkable. I love her a little more now.
re: #27 jamesfirecat
Wolves have too much loyalty to the pack.
Lets be honest with ourselves with what they are… rats in a sack…
Good point. Apologies to the wolves. Rats in a sack they are.
In reality, the Spartans held for a few days and then were crushed. The Persians then sacked Athens soon afterwards.
Aren’t you a historian? https://t.co/nJzruXBVMg— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) November 20, 2020
Stochastic terrorism.
Giuliani says “the Democrat Party was hijacked by Clinton,” then adds while making a throat-slashing motion, “somebody has gotta cut the head off” pic.twitter.com/FxU5PFePAw
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 20, 2020
re: #31 jaunte
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Thermopylae, the Alamo - what is it with right-wingers and lopsided defeats in which everybody on the defending side dies horribly? Look, if that’s what they really want to do…
re: #33 thedopefishlives
“Come and take it” in which they came and took it.
re: #34 jaunte
“Come and take it” in which they came and took it.
And Jim Bowie, hero of the American West, died sick in his bed with his knife in his hand.
re: #33 thedopefishlives
Thermopylae, the Alamo - what is it with right-wingers and lopsided defeats in which everybody on the defending side dies horribly? Look, if that’s what they really want to do…
Lets be fair at least they Greek City states eventually won the war with the Persians and the Texas rebels got their revenge at the Battle of San Jacinto…. but who knows give it a few more years and maybe they’ll talk about the importance of holding the Seelow Heights.
Whew.
I know we’re all tired and our pockets are empty but anything you can spare, Georgia Democrats could put to good use.
Blue Georgia pulled through for us big time.
Let’s invest in them right back.https://t.co/MuZ3jfF0oZ— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) November 20, 2020
Trump campaign calls for Georgia not to certify its election results
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 20, 2020
Georgia: ‘Yeah, no.’ (hopefully)
re: #22 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Paranoid as always.
It’s not paranoia. Trump is going to have a massively unethical/illegal conversation with these MI state legislators.
re: #31 jaunte
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The Trump defenders are down to nothing but old fictional movie references as a case?
This really is stressful, sucks right now, totally uncalled for, will costs lives and American security.
It will not be long before we laugh at these clowns, the entire post election situation and marvel at the acting AG’s ruthless indictments. (I’m hoping at this sentence but no one has seen the Senate go to hell more than Biden)
re: #15 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Then we have our wingnut state senator Greone who went out of his way to get it, claims he did, said he wasn’t seriously ill, and insists on “herd immunity.”
Stories like Dr. Maddow’s all have the same refrain with the holidays coming up: Don’t have people over. Don’t.
Yet there are so many who rationalise why “they” will be safe, their family or friends won’t give them something, &c.
As Dr. Maddow points out, there ain’t no more hospital beds.
My most popular tweet, by far.
Your concession speech has already been written, sir. Just use the same words (the best words!) in this video. pic.twitter.com/OjCSy9YRs5
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 17, 2020
‘China is in on it. Cuba is on it. Antifa and George Soros are in on it. At least 2 presidents of Venezuela, 1 dead and 1 living, are in on it.’ @MrDanZak @jdawsey1 on Rudy’s conspiracy, as ‘black liquid began to slowly streak from each of his temples.’ https://t.co/dGNPAvmvbP
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) November 20, 2020
Sure this is a clown show, but so was John Wayne Gacy.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 20, 2020
“The danger for Shirkey and Chatfield, then, is that they are being visibly invited to a meeting where the likely agenda involves the felony of attempting to bribe a public official.”
https://t.co/Je4IDa5VrQ— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) November 20, 2020
Look what you signed up for, assholes.
There isn’t even a claim. Or an argument. They just want to annul the election https://t.co/no2H2ZHTVr
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) November 20, 2020
re: #44 jaunte
Hitler was a goddamn clown show. Why people think clown shows are incompatible with darker shit like a fascist coup is beyond me.
@JonathanTurley has made a complete joke of himself.
— mythtv_king (@mythtv_king) November 19, 2020
President Trump’s lawyers have filed a new motion in Pennsylvania making clear that they only want to block the state from certifying the results of the presidential election, which they claim was fraudulent. It can certify the other races, decided on the same ballots, they say. pic.twitter.com/nbrBMJQULN
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 20, 2020
re: #49 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
WTF is their legal argument for that horseshit?
“Only R votes for president are valid”?
re: #48 Patricia Kayden
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Turley sure seems to have made sure that the GOP wagon was heading off the cliff before he hitched up to them. Smart call dude! Say hi to Lara Logan for me.
re: #50 EPR-radar
WTF is their legal argument for that horseshit?
“Only R votes for president are valid”?
Pretty much.
re: #40 b.d. (We Won!)
It will not be long before we laugh at these clowns, the entire post election situation and marvel at the acting AG’s ruthless indictments. (I’m hoping at this sentence but no one has seen the Senate go to hell more than Biden)
I’m afraid this is a dry run. More competent people with equal fascist ideations are looking at what Trump is doing and thinking it just might work in the future.
re: #50 EPR-radar
WTF is their legal argument for that horseshit?
“Only R votes for president are valid”?
NO! We only wish to count the votes of sane white men, just like the founders intended! Are you against the wishes of the Founding Fathers and the country they founded?!?!?
They will go to six civilian hospitals in four cities to help overworked health care staff
— Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) November 20, 2020
re: #50 EPR-radar
WTF is their legal argument for that horseshit?
“Only R votes for president are valid”?
Yes. Of course.
re: #51 b.d. (We Won!)
Turley sure seems to have made sure that the GOP wagon was heading off the cliff before he hitched up to them. Smart call dude! Say hi to Lara Logan for me.
Fuck that hack!
Andrii Derkach - Russian intelligence - Giuliani https://t.co/yLxbZfaxb9
Dmytro Firtash - Russian mafia - DiGenova and Toensing https://t.co/ZcItLpzIh0— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) November 20, 2020
re: #50 EPR-radar
WTF is their legal argument for that horseshit?
“Only R votes for president are valid”?
I’d love to actually read the memorandum itself to see what their legal argument is. It’s gotta be something completely batshit insane.
re: #55 🌹UOJB!
Rudy didn’t know what every woman on the planet knows; when you use mascara to touch up this gray hairs, it has to be waterproof. That shit never comes off.
re: #56 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
There sure are a lot of assholes in that thread saying “well, fuque that state, they get what they deserve.”
As if every person in North Dakota is a feral conservative, or every person was ignoring the recommendations about the disease.
You know, fuque them all, because they’re just a flyover state (that’s in there too).
THIS THREAD.
PRECISELY.
THIS! Read it.
Goddamn trump to hell for this! https://t.co/gX2gsRHlhk— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 20, 2020
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There sure are a lot of assholes in that thread saying “well, fuque that state, they get what they deserve.”
As if every person in North Dakota is a feral conservative, or every person was ignoring the recommendations about the disease.
You know, fuque them all, because they’re just a flyover state (that’s in there too).
I hear you. I’m having a very hard time feeling empathy at the moment.
Talk to your family, Mitt.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 20, 2020
So, I am finally watching the Ghouliani presser courtesy of Vaush, and even without his commentary, this is the worst Charlie Foxtrot I’ve ever witnessed. Like, it’s on the level of the definition and scales of Charlie Foxtrot’s having to be adjusted simply because of the order of magnitude of this one.
Also, speech pattern and vibrato of the participants voices so far, I’m 36:00 in suggest that they are major league defecating masonry building materials. They’re terrified.
Edit: Juliet. Foxtrot. Charlie. Over.
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There sure are a lot of assholes in that thread saying “well, fuque that state, they get what they deserve.”
As if every person in North Dakota is a feral conservative, or every person was ignoring the recommendations about the disease.
You know, fuque them all, because they’re just a flyover state (that’s in there too).
They do realize that there are people up here whose lives are worth living, right? Right now, my governor is almost literally waging war against the four surrounding states, doing his damnedest to keep our people from falling victim to the plague and failing miserably because our people are tired of fighting and are jumping ship to go do things across the borders, in the so-called “free” states, and bringing this infection home with them. Fuck everybody who thinks that North Dakota can go fuck itself, because right now, they’re taking us with it - and that’s not okay.
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ah, I see, the account had three letters “m.” Different account.
Maybe too many people complained about her Mac and Cheese?
Uh… I know it’s the Daily Mail and all… but hackers say they’ve taken over the servers of Kenneth Copeland Ministries and will release sensitive files if they don’t get a ransom.https://t.co/VZ6UEqGP6i
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) November 20, 2020
re: #74 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They say they have video of Kenneth Copeland unhinging his jaw and eating the first two rows of parishioners.
re: #74 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #39 EPR-radar
It’s not paranoia. Trump is going to have a massively unethical/illegal conversation with these MI state legislators.
I’m hoping one of them has a conscience she will be wearing a wire. Admittedly, I know there too much to ask for.
Former Senator Claire McCaskill thanks Sen. Ben Sasse for this statement on NBC and challenges other Republicans to do the same.
See? It’s not so hard. Move your mouth and speak up. Now. pic.twitter.com/LfAvvZr41J
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) November 20, 2020
re: #3 BigPapa
I have a seething loathesome rage for all these cretins
I am a little taken aback, myself, with its intensity.
re: #76 🌹UOJB!
Will they or won’t they release Kenny’s porn collection?
There’s legal issues with that. (Read: underage)
re: #71 thedopefishlives
They do realize that there are people up here whose lives are worth living, right? Right now, my governor is almost literally waging war against the four surrounding states, doing his damnedest to keep our people from falling victim to the plague and failing miserably because our people are tired of fighting and are jumping ship to go do things across the borders, in the so-called “free” states, and bringing this infection home with them. Fuck everybody who thinks that North Dakota can go fuck itself, because right now, they’re taking us with it - and that’s not okay.
That’s the whole reason I’m having a hard time empathizing. They don’t care and they’re killing other people with complete abandon. It’s sickening. It’s murderous. They’re sociopaths listening to a psychopath.
I’m rage white angry.
re: #77 GlutenFreeJesus
I’m hoping one of them has a conscience she will be wearing a wire. Admittedly, I know there too much to ask for.
I think it’s two dudes.
re: #71 thedopefishlives
They do realize that there are people up here whose lives are worth living, right? Right now, my governor is almost literally waging war against the four surrounding states, doing his damnedest to keep our people from falling victim to the plague and failing miserably because our people are tired of fighting and are jumping ship to go do things across the borders, in the so-called “free” states, and bringing this infection home with them. Fuck everybody who thinks that North Dakota can go fuck itself, because right now, they’re taking us with it - and that’s not okay.
We liberals in deep red states get used to the casual way in which other liberals in other states are willing to write us off. “They voted for this, they deserve what they get.” I most emphatically did not vote for this crap.
re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We liberals in deep red states get used to the casual way in which other liberals in other states are willing to write us off. “They voted for this, they deserve what they get.” I most emphatically did not vote for this crap.
This is why I caution against abolishing the Senate altogether. While it is absolutely broken beyond recognition in its current form, the people who didn’t vote for the majority - a.k.a. the minority - are still people, and still have basic inalienable rights. Blue lives in red states matter; and as much as some of the more militant liberals might disagree, red lives in blue states also matter. We just need to figure out how to keep the minority party from being able to completely lock the majority out of governing the country at all, because that model doesn’t work when the minority party has no interest in anything except their own political power.
re: #74 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Wonder if the computer records will show what part of Eagle Mountain Lake he and Cullen Davis dumped all that ill gotten gain?
Cullen repented his sins and he and Copeland dumped all unworthy possessions over the side of Copeland’s boat in Eagle Mountain Lake. Divers have been searching for years and haven’t found squat, go figure?
(the case that made Richard “Racehorse” Haynes)
Cullen Davis was the richest person to go to trial for murder in the US before OJ,
Tata, who is performing the duties of an undersecretary of Defense, was in meetings with other top Pentagon officials this week including Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, Deputy SecDef David Norquist, Gen. Mark Milley. Miller on Wednesday visited troops at Fort Bragg.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 20, 2020
“…In June, Trump named Tata to the top policy post, but could not persuade the Senate Armed Services Committee to usher him to the floor for a vote. Tata drew fire for falsely saying that former President Barack Obama was a “terrorist leader” and a Muslim. He has pushed conspiracy theories on Twitter that former CIA Director John Brennan sought to overthrow Trump and even to have him assassinated.
“Anthony Tata has no business working in the Pentagon in any capacity,” Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., now vice president-elect, tweeted in August. “His vile Islamophobic comments are disqualifying, period. Our service members deserve better from their leadership.”
defenseone.com
re: #82 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I think it’s two dudes.
Yeah, two dudes. The male-female couple is the electors in Michigan.
For some reason, I think Twitter is concealing the tweet below. Can you see it on my page? pic.twitter.com/qtoUpfdlyK
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 20, 2020
re: #70 Teukka
So, I am finally watching the Ghouliani presser courtesy of Vaush, and even without his commentary, this is the worst Charlie Foxtrot I’ve ever witnessed. Like, it’s on the level of the definition and scales of Charlie Foxtrot’s having to be adjusted simply because of the order of magnitude of this one.
Also, speech pattern and vibrato of the participants voices so far, I’m 36:00 in suggest that they are major league defecating masonry building materials. They’re terrified.Edit: Juliet. Foxtrot. Charlie. Over.
Of course they’re terrified. The reckon that when all is said and done, they’re gonna end up in the slammer.
Captured on a Ring camera just after 3am today:
Scottsbluff resident’s camera captures possible mountain lion sighting (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, with a screen grab of the alleged mountain lion)
re: #85 thedopefishlives
But the Senate does not represent the minority. It represents land.
re: #93 IngisKahn
But the Senate does not represent the minority. It represents land.
Indeed it does. In the current state of politics, that represents the minority (more people live in cities, which are Democratic; more land is rural areas which tend Republican). That isn’t always the case. I’m agreeing that the Senate needs to be reworked; what I’m opposing is the calls for it to be abolished entirely, and opening the country to simple majority rule via a unicameral + popular-vote President. That way lies madness.
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
Of course they’re terrified. The reckon that when all is said and done, they’re gonna end up in the slammer.
All the more reason not to behave in ways which will force even the most benevolent individual to act against you, and which will only add to your sentence, but they’re doing it…
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
Of course they’re terrified. The reckon that when all is said and done, they’re gonna end up in the slammer.
That’s the part I don’t get. Since when do Republicans pay for their crimes in the US?
Of course it needs to happen, every time and especially this time, but IMO the chance of any criminal judgment vs. Trump is depressingly low. My guess is <1% chance of jail time and < 10% chance of fines etc.
re: #94 thedopefishlives
Indeed it does. In the current state of politics, that represents the minority (more people live in cities, which are Democratic; more land is rural areas which tend Republican). That isn’t always the case. I’m agreeing that the Senate needs to be reworked; what I’m opposing is the calls for it to be abolished entirely, and opening the country to simple majority rule via a unicameral + popular-vote President. That way lies madness.
You get the Nebraska Unicameral for a whole nation.
re: #95 Teukka
All the more reason not to behave in ways which will force even the most benevolent individual to act against you, and which will only add to your sentence, but they’re doing it…
It’s 100% panic-driven desperation. It’s counter-intuitive and irrational but from their POV, they probably imagine they’re in a life-or-death situation. When Biden is sworn in on 20 January 2021, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if there are suicides.
re: #96 EPR-radar
That’s the part I don’t get. Since when do Republicans pay for their crimes in the US?
Of course it needs to happen, every time and especially this time, but IMO the chance of any criminal judgment vs. Trump is depressingly low. My guess is <1% chance of jail time and < 10% chance of fines etc.
I don’t see it that way. I think the state of New York is rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of sending Trump and his family to prison.
People have been bandying about the word “coup,” and yes, I’m listening. Yes, I’m concerned. But I think there is one thing none of us have considered. It’s a wild variable, but it could affect the calculus of Trump and his minions thinking they could overthrow the democratic order.
That thing is COVID-19. If people go out like idiots next week, it’s entirely likely that by the second week in December, we will have so many people sick, so many hospitals full, so… you get what I mean.
I do not know what this means for settling the legitimate succession. But COVID-19 has put a monkey wrench into so much this year. Who knows what kind of effect it might have on getting things moving for the next presidency? (Yes, I am being optimistic. I have to be.)
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
Of course they’re terrified. The reckon that when all is said and done, they’re gonna end up in the slammer.
IT’S FUCKING GLORIOUS!!!
re: #100 Dr Lizardo
I don’t see it that way. I think the state of New York is rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of sending Trump and his family to prison.
Agreed!
re: #94 thedopefishlives
Indeed it does. In the current state of politics, that represents the minority (more people live in cities, which are Democratic; more land is rural areas which tend Republican). That isn’t always the case. I’m agreeing that the Senate needs to be reworked; what I’m opposing is the calls for it to be abolished entirely, and opening the country to simple majority rule via a unicameral + popular-vote President. That way lies madness.
No major reform of US politics is possible (or meaningful) as long as Republicans are what they are — a crime syndicate pretending to be a political party.
Minor cleanup around the edges may be possible (e.g., making a long list of things Trump did in office more explicitly illegal), but this has no real significance in a country where GOP president are above the law.
re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It would be a better sign if it had some trees in the picture 😎
Comment writing here from you and others stifle a lot of my “screw the yokels mentality “, and your comments always remind me I was once a liberal living in a conservative state and how much I hated to be stereotyped, bitd.
You’ll still be a princess you’ll just be a prison princess
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) November 20, 2020
Ghouliani presser update:
Had to stop watching. That shit is what would be classed as a cognitohazard in the SCP universe…
re: #106 So Cal Greek Hippie
It would be a better sign if it had some trees in the picture 😎
Comment writing here from you and others stifle a lot of my “screw the yokels mentality “, and your comments as always remind me I was once a liberal living in a conservative state and how much I hated to be stereotyped, bitd.
The sign is on the boundary on US-30 at the edge of Pine Bluffs, Wyo.
They moved all the trees out of the Panhandle so they could have more on the east side of the state.
That flat empty treeless plain with the words “Home of Arbor Day” really makes the picture.
Fuck Willard and his Susan Collins level of concern.
You’re concerned now. But hey, at least you got to vote for dear leader’s batshit crazy religious nutjob Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett, so this coup is all worth it, right Mittens? https://t.co/5APAx1v1H3
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 20, 2020
What’s the problem? We’re paying you to sit at home and do nothing.
— Michael Drake (@mikedrake178) November 20, 2020
re: #107 gocart mozart
Criminal Ivanka!
Baku money laundering and mammadov
Panama and money laundering fugitive Alexandre Nogueira
Kgb and Mogilevich associate Shnaider who funneled money via russian intel bank VEB bank
Indonesia money laundering. @IvankaTrump is so corrupt w endless mafia dealings https://t.co/Y9LrxtZDu7— Olga Lautman (@OlgaNYC1211) November 20, 2020
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
BTW what’s the story with the spire peak and red dwarf sun on the sign?
re: #111 jaunte
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It is fucking insane that this dipshit views pandemic control as a “cultural” issue relating to “victimhood”.
re: #114 Mike Lamb
He’s learned to use the socon toolkit.
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The sign is on the boundary on US-30 at the edge of Pine Bluffs, Wyo.
They moved all the trees out of the Panhandle so they could have more on the east side of the state.
That flat empty treeless plain with the words “Home of Arbor Day” really makes the picture.
It’s kind of like the sign that used to be on westbound I-80 just after you crossed into Wendover, Nevada, that welcomed people to the Pacific Time Zone. At that point you have just come out of the Bonneville Salt Flats, crossed over a low ridge and are moving into an arid desert valley. At that point, you were 615 miles from San Francisco. It always struck me as incongruous.
That said, it also reminded me there was gambling ahead.
Watching your election from here in England I am gobsmacked by the sheer unadulterated lack of class and respect your President is showing and in wonder at the calm and professional way the President Elect is behaving.
— Alan Gormley ❤️🌈💙 (@alanmgormley) November 19, 2020
Stanford faculty passed a resolution tonight condemning Trump’s pandemic adviser Scott Atlas. “Atlas’s disdain for established medical knowledge violates medical ethics,” they write. “His pronouncements are damaging Stanford’s reputation and academic standing.”
— Yasmeen Abutaleb (@yabutaleb7) November 20, 2020
Good, now dump the Hoover Institution.
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The sign is on the boundary on US-30 at the edge of Pine Bluffs, Wyo.
They moved all the trees out of the Panhandle so they could have more on the east side of the state.
That flat empty treeless plain with the words “Home of Arbor Day” really makes the picture.
Not to mention the bullet holes in the sign.
Trump “is [now] acting, and failing to act, in ways that could cause incalculable harm: needless thousands of deaths, and the weakening of our security, particularly our cybersecurity and relations with allies.” https://t.co/7k5m2ctoh2
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) November 20, 2020
re: #94 thedopefishlives
Indeed it does. In the current state of politics, that represents the minority (more people live in cities, which are Democratic; more land is rural areas which tend Republican). That isn’t always the case. I’m agreeing that the Senate needs to be reworked; what I’m opposing is the calls for it to be abolished entirely, and opening the country to simple majority rule via a unicameral + popular-vote President. That way lies madness.
The Senate represents the white, non college population. It gives disproportionate power to the most populous demographics. It was created to convince thirteen tiny countries that they could pretend to be one big country.
Unicameral is bad, I agree, but as it existed for the last 8 years, Republicans, the minority party of the 1% that can control the power of demographics through racism, has used the Senate to hold absolute control of the other branches. This power grab will be very difficult to undo, if at all possible.
Fixing it is definitely preferable to abolishing it for sure. Might be impossible though. Maybe we can merge the idea of states with the idea of areas of equal population, separating the tight coupling of senators to states. With protections against gerrymandering… I guess the long and short of it is that the constitution is broken. The odds of any of this changing are very low. If Drumpf keeps this coup thing going we may be forced to.
re: #113 So Cal Greek Hippie
BTW what’s the story with the spire peak and red dwarf sun on the sign?
The spire is Chimney Rock, a National Monument four miles south of Bayard in my county.
The red sun represents the sunset on the High Plains.
I don’t have proof, but this would be funny:
The Trumpers are demanding Tucker Carlson be fired 💀
— abigail spanberger stan (@notcapnamerica) November 20, 2020
I don’t think that Trump’s coup is going to succeed.
But I do think this state of hyper alertness that we are all in, where we’re constantly yelling at other people for not being vigilant enough against the risk of fascism, is exactly the right level of panic right now.— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 20, 2020
re: #124 Belafon
I don’t have proof, but this would be funny:
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That should come as a surprise to no one if it’s true.
re: #102 mmmirele
People have been bandying about the word “coup,” and yes, I’m listening. Yes, I’m concerned. But I think there is one thing none of us have considered. It’s a wild variable, but it could affect the calculus of Trump and his minions thinking they could overthrow the democratic order.
That thing is COVID-19. If people go out like idiots next week, it’s entirely likely that by the second week in December, we will have so many people sick, so many hospitals full, so… you get what I mean.
I do not know what this means for settling the legitimate succession. But COVID-19 has put a monkey wrench into so much this year. Who knows what kind of effect it might have on getting things moving for the next presidency? (Yes, I am being optimistic. I have to be.)
Welp, I think that the legal shit show (Part 1) that The Great Pretender is attempting right now will be as dead as armadillo roadkill by Monday or Tuesday.
Now that doesn’t mean that legal shit show (Part 2) will not immediately follow that death.
And many of us have read Bleak House and know that lawsuits have lives of their own, often ending in the lawyers having all the money and the bickering sides getting squat.
But as far as COVID affecting the legal battle, meh, no, I don’t think so, unless a shitpot of the legal teams/judges/staff get sick.
The virus will be a deadly side show to this ongoing political side show, as it has been a deadly side show to the election cycle which ended on 11/3.
Remember when we were kids and they explained a nuclear reaction with a film where thousands of mousetraps had two ping pong balls on the snapper parts and they they threw a single ping pong ball into it and it just exploded into absolute chaos in just a few seconds?
Well, that’s COVID, but a whole lot slower. Before I got deathly ill and stopped posting here for several weeks, I warned that the virus was sneaking into middle Americas one truck stop at a time and would eventually explode.
Well, I’m functional again and here we are, and unless we attack the virus like New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Korea have done, it is going to just eat us up.
But as far as Trump is concerned, the virus doesn’t exist. It won’t affect his legal actions a whit.
1. Background: In Trump’s recent power putsch at the Pentagon, he installed Tata as Undersecretary for Policy - Tata’s previous nomination for that position was pulled bc of his islamophobic + offensive remarks. https://t.co/lFUt6SJE4c
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) November 20, 2020
3. Plus there were a lots of concerns that the replacements weren’t qualified and were installed based on their loyalty to Trump vs. focus on doing their taxpayer funded jobs.
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) November 20, 2020
5. Who is a) in charge b) healthy enough to show up to work and c) focused on protecting the homeland vs. protecting Trump?
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) November 20, 2020
RedState is busy trashing the nurse who wrote on Twitter then appeared on CNN.
The rest of their site is a Dumpster fire as well.
Pro Tip: Where there is state tax fraud, there is almost always federal tax fraud. (Just thought I’d mention that. What? Oh, no particular reason.)
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) November 20, 2020
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
RedState is busy trashing the nurse who wrote on Twitter then appeared on CNN.
The rest of their site is a Dumpster fire as well.
So, nothing has changed?
re: #131 austin_blue
So, nothing has changed?
Not really. I check in there once in a while just to see what they’re on about.
And “it’s not going to work” isn’t a defense.
“We’re just humoring him” isn’t a defense.
“He needs time to come to terms with the defeat” isn’t a defense.
It’s long been past time for you to put your country over your party.
But if not now, when?!?— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 19, 2020
My proposal for Senate reform would expand the chamber to 3 Senators from each state staggered 6 year terms PLUS 100 Senators elected at large elected every 2 years with proportional representation and a 5% minimum for a party to get seats. The at large senators would act as a check on the others.
Night all. I am taking my still-recovering corpus off to the rack.
Be safe and bless you all.
(1:13)
#COVID19 vaccines - will they be safe?@doctorsoumya explains why COVID-19 vaccines are able to be developed so fast ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/UaGrf8lerr
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) November 19, 2020
re: #135 austin_blue
Night all. I am taking my still-recovering corpus off to the rack.
Be safe and bless you all.
Be well soon.
I will take the vaccine as soon as it’s available for me to take it. I sincerely hope it’s soon.
So please tell us what consulting you did that was legitimately worth $747,622 to the family company you already worked for. If this is “harassment, pure and simple,” that should be pretty easy to explain. https://t.co/QMuEQiqn22
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) November 20, 2020
re: #138 plansbandc
I will take the vaccine as soon as it’s available for me to take it. I sincerely hope it’s soon.
Same for me, but I expect it will be a long time.
We can’t even get this year’s flu vaccines in the area.
Guillotine bait:
Tyson Foods Faces Lawsuit After Plant Managers Allegedly Bet On How Many Workers Would Catch Coronavirus
Tyson Foods is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after more than 1,000 employees of a pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa tested positive for coronavirus early in the pandemic. The lawsuit, filed by the son of one of the workers who passed in April from covid-19 complications, alleges that not only did supervisors knowingly keep the facility open during the outbreak, they also placed bets on how many workers would catch the virus.
re: #142 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Guillotine bait:
Tyson Foods Faces Lawsuit After Plant Managers Allegedly Bet On How Many Workers Would Catch Coronavirus
*picks up jaw from floor* Whaaa…. ?
Oh No He Didn’t…Oh Yes He Did!!!!
Actual Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Now Submitting To Medical Expertise Of The MyPillow Guy
Yes, according to a report in the Washington Post, famous neurosurgeon Ben Carson, after being diagnosed with COVID-19, took the advice of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and took some Oleandrin, a product marketed by a company Lindell owns a stake in, which also happens to be derived from a very deadly poison. Like there was a whole Michelle Pfeiffer movie about murdering someone with oleander, and it was literally called White Oleander. You do not have to be a neurosurgeon to know that Oleandrin is dangerous, you simply have to watch many, many episodes of the ID Channel’s Deadly Women series.
“Umber Choad”
Gosh, there’s a whole lot of butthurt MAGA snowflake whinging in my TL tonight over my “Make ‘em famous” tweet about the Michigan lawmakers coming to DC to kneel before the Umber Choad and promise their fealty.
Cry harder.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 20, 2020
If you’re rich and white, well, prison terms aren’t what they might be for someone else.
BOSTON (AP) — Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli reported to prison on Thursday to begin serving his five-month sentence for bribing his daughters’ way into college, officials said.
Giannulli’s wife, “Full House” actor Lori Loughlin, is already behind bars for her role in the college admissions bribery scheme involving prominent parents and elite schools across the country. She began her two-month prison term late last month.
Giannulli, 57, whose Mossimo clothing had long been a Target brand until recently, is in custody at a federal prison in Lompoc near Santa Barbara, California, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said. Loughlin, 56, is at the federal lockup in Dublin, California.
The couple was among the most high-profile parents charged in the scheme, involved hefty bribes to get undeserving teens into schools with rigged test scores or bogus athletic credentials, authorities say.
re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“equal ju$ti¢e under law” my @$$…
This.
Our priorities are not right. https://t.co/wPExcGDeur— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) November 20, 2020
Can the kids go to school in restaurants
— Jessica Winter (@winterjessica) November 18, 2020
only until 10pm
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) November 18, 2020
That’s COVID’s bedtime
— Barricaded Subject 45* (@MattPoltrack) November 18, 2020
All of you lauding Tucker Carlson for doing the bare minimum of calling BS on Sidney Powell’s lunacy has me quoting the gentleman from Queens:
“I don’t think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.”https://t.co/2qfyt9V32N— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 20, 2020
This good boy — a victim of abuse — was refusing to eat.
So the Veterinarian nursing him back to health decided to try a different technique.
Humanity.🌎❤️pic.twitter.com/5ySKOxbZMH— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 19, 2020
re: #152 Teukka
Rex Chapman was the first draft pick made by the fledging Charlotte Hornets. He averaged 14.6 points in a very respectable 12-year career. Who knew that a kid from Bowling Green, Kentucky could be so … cool?
Just hoping he never turns to the Dark Side.
re: #153 TarHellion
He’s also is one of the biggest content thieves on Twitter.
So there’s an ambulance with flashing lights in my driveway, for the 3rd time this week.
In fairness, it is a large building (more than 500 units) with a high percentage of very old people, so I can’t just assume Covid. It could be heart attacks, or broken hips, or almost anything. But.
There’s also 3 fairly new hires among the building staff (out of 20 or so usual roster), so I’m feeling nervous. I’m kind of afraid to ask.
re: #85 thedopefishlives
What does the constitution say about how votes are counted in the Senate? Would it be possible to give each senator voting powers proportional to the population of their state?
The Michigan legislators scheduled to meet Trump tomorrow will be taking a big step toward opening themselves up to criminal investigations at home if they go through with it. https://t.co/d3Kl27wBls
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 20, 2020
re: #1 i(m)p(each)sos
No amusing acronyms. Trump is immensely dangerous to democracy and I’m terrified of the next 62 days till he’s gone.
He has nothing to lose and is holding his party hostage as they have two key election on which control of the Senate depends to lose…
re: #11 thecommodore
Tucker Carlson must have been paid off handsomely by Soros.
Fox has joined the Deep State. Obviously, China outbid Russia.
re: #49 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
President Trump’s lawyers have filed a new motion in Pennsylvania making clear that they only want to block the state from certifying the results of the presidential election, which they claim was fraudulent. It can certify the other races, decided on the same ballots, they say.
That must have been some pretty nefarious election tampering on the part of the DNC to win the Presidency but lose the down-ticket elections…
I have now caught up with the thread. You may resume your regularly scheduled postings.
States can prosecute as well under state election laws, as we noted this week in GA. https://t.co/bjNhsNOReA
— Jennifer ‘the people have decided’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 20, 2020
File under “Signs the ‘rona is getting bad”:
Stockholm open air museum and zoo Skansen closes entirely for the first time in 129 years.
Sauce: mitti.se [ translate.google.com ]
Seven days ago, I commented that we’d never had all 10 states on the daily list of the top ten states by reports of new cases of COVID reporting over 5,000.
Today, they’re all over 6,000.
In fact, there are 11 states reporting more than 6,000 new cases today.— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) November 20, 2020
42 states reported more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday.
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) November 20, 2020
75 years ago today, the #NurembergTrials began in Germany. What started as the most important trial to bring Nazi leaders to justice became an everlasting warning for war criminals and dictators around the globe.https://t.co/1NY4aXCx2f
— DW Deutsche Welle (@DeutscheWelle) November 20, 2020
re: #166 ericblair
75 years ago today, the Nuremberg Trials began in Germany. What started as the most important trial to bring Nazi leaders to justice became an everlasting warning for war criminals and dictators around the globe.
The warning being “don’t get caught, or if you do, make sure you’re on the winning side”
On Wednesday, Pompeo seemed more like a settler leader than a U.S. foreign minister. It’s a good thing he is leaving office | Haaretz Editorial https://t.co/Tc8jX0f9oB
Mike Pompeo chose to end his term with a tour of solidarity with Israel’s extreme right, while spitting on decades of pre-Trump U.S. foreign policy, on the norms of international law and on justice
These are the last days of Pompeo
Haaretz Editorialhttps://t.co/Tc8jX0f9oB
re: #166 ericblair
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated”
— Opening address for the United States prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-11-21
re: #162 Dread Pirate Ron
Smart move to make for Biden is to keep those cards close to his chest; don’t even hint at what possible course of action might be taken, because these GOP asshats might become even more desperate than they already are.
Give these SOBs plenty of rope to hang themselves with - and then spring the trap sometime in February or March of next year with a DOJ announcement of a wide-ranging investigation into possible Republican electoral fraud and announce that the DOJ will be cooperating with state authorities in pursuit of the matter.
Surprise, motherfuckers! And watch ‘em squirm.
These post-election shenanigans should really bury any notions of “reconciliation” or “reaching out across the aisle”.
The party is held hostage to Trump for his support in the upcoming GA run-offs and cannot afford to sit him down and tell him to throw in the towel at this point.
re: #172 Dr Lizardo
Reason #infinity why the Georgia elections matter so much:
Without D control of the Senate, the battle to get an AG confirmed will be intense and probably impossible. Mitch knows what’s at stake with that particular appointment and will do everything in his power - if he has that power - to keep a responsible AG from being seated.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These post-election shenanigans should really bury any notions of “reconciliation” or “reaching out across the aisle”.
The party is held hostage to Trump for his support in the upcoming GA run-offs and cannot afford to sit him down and tell him to throw in the towel at this point.
I’ve more than once been hit with the notion that their behavior right now is designed to burn all bridges.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These post-election shenanigans should really bury any notions of “reconciliation” or “reaching out across the aisle”.
The party is held hostage to Trump for his support in the upcoming GA run-offs and cannot afford to sit him down and tell him to throw in the towel at this point.
You’re right. Trump is effectively holding the GOP hostage; if the leadership went to him and told him to sit down and STFU (which I’m sure many of them probably very much like to do), he’d immediately take to his Twitter account and start ranting about how the GOP was throwing him under the bus and urging his supporters to “show the GOP who’s the boss” by sitting out the upcoming Georgia run-offs. And yes, Trump is entirely petty and vindictive enough to do just that….and the GOP knows it.
re: #13 jaunte
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oh honey its not harassment when it’s true
This is harassment pure and simple. This ‘inquiry’ by NYC democrats is 100% motivated by politics, publicity and rage. They know very well that there’s nothing here and that there was no tax benefit whatsoever. These politicians are simply ruthless.https://t.co/4dQoDzQlRX
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 20, 2020
re: #33 thedopefishlives
Thermopylae, the Alamo - what is it with right-wingers and lopsided defeats in which everybody on the defending side dies horribly? Look, if that’s what they really want to do…
So you aren’t hoping that the White House decides to go for Masada in a couple weeks?
re: #179 steve_davis
So you aren’t hoping that the White House decides to go for Masada in a couple weeks?
Rum, Masadamy and the Lash
re: #33 thedopefishlives
Thermopylae, the Alamo - what is it with right-wingers and lopsided defeats in which everybody on the defending side dies horribly? Look, if that’s what they really want to do…
re: #179 steve_davis
So you aren’t hoping that the White House decides to go for Masada in a couple weeks?
What I hope that we avoid is this:
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
It’s 100% panic-driven desperation. It’s counter-intuitive and irrational but from their POV, they probably imagine they’re in a life-or-death situation. When Biden is sworn in on 20 January 2021, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if there are suicides.
I, for one, wont shed a tear.
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
It’s 100% panic-driven desperation. It’s counter-intuitive and irrational but from their POV, they probably imagine they’re in a life-or-death situation. When Biden is sworn in on 20 January 2021, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if there are suicides.
The longer Trump reinforces his message of a stolen election, the greater the likelihood of widespread RW militia terrorism and violence. They will see themselves as the “patriotic underground” defending (White) America against widespread Democrat corruption.
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
It’s 100% panic-driven desperation. It’s counter-intuitive and irrational but from their POV, they probably imagine they’re in a life-or-death situation. When Biden is sworn in on 20 January 2021, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if there are suicides.
re: #182 Eventual Carrion
I, for one, wont shed a tear.
We may also have very public psychotic episodes. Which won’t surprise me either…
re: #184 Teukka
We may also have very public psychotic episodes. Which won’t surprise me either…
In RW Evangelical churches all over America
re: #182 Eventual Carrion
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #184 Teukka
The most likely suspects for any potential terrorist acts are the Qcumbers, the real hardcore ones, alongside some of the RW militia nutjobs. The Qcumbers are definitely at the top of my list of “those most likely to kill themselves in cult suicide fashion”.
re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Exceptions made for Covid-19
“Home of Arbor Day, where the citizens of the towns gather in a circle before the harvest, draw lots, and whoever draws the black circle is stoned by the other residents, in order to ensure a good harvest.”
“(Ahem), uhm, Charlie, no one is gonna be able to read all that at 65 miles per hour. Just strike everything after the first comma.”
re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We liberals in deep red states get used to the casual way in which other liberals in other states are willing to write us off. “They voted for this, they deserve what they get.” I most emphatically did not vote for this crap.
Florida liberal cosigns this.
I am throwing this one back without comment. Not even offering a single shard of snide in reply. Nothing. A true sportsman does not deign to cast his rod over in a stocked pond. https://t.co/jaTk4hiM2v
— David Simon (@AoDespair) November 20, 2020
re: #102 mmmirele
People have been bandying about the word “coup,” and yes, I’m listening. Yes, I’m concerned. But I think there is one thing none of us have considered. It’s a wild variable, but it could affect the calculus of Trump and his minions thinking they could overthrow the democratic order.
That thing is COVID-19. If people go out like idiots next week, it’s entirely likely that by the second week in December, we will have so many people sick, so many hospitals full, so… you get what I mean.
I do not know what this means for settling the legitimate succession. But COVID-19 has put a monkey wrench into so much this year. Who knows what kind of effect it might have on getting things moving for the next presidency? (Yes, I am being optimistic. I have to be.)
I agree. I wish more people have read “The 4th Turning”. It describes this phase an explains it won’t go on forever.
I am hoping the temperature starts to drop as twitler loses power. Just like it went up when he took office. He and his family will be under intense scrutiny the rest of their lives and their normal way of doing business will not be so easy.
You might say “he still has his followers” but that will not be true. Sure there will be dead-enders but he has no ideology. He is just a cult of personality.
re: #190 Axolotl
I agree. I wish more people have read “The 4th Turning”. It describes this phase an explains it won’t go on forever.
I am hoping the temperature starts to drop as twitler loses power. Just like it went up when he took office. He and his family will be under intense scrutiny the rest of their lives and their normal way of doing business will not be so easy.
You might say “he still has his followers” but that will not be true. Sure there will be dead-enders but he has no ideology. He is just a cult of personality.
A gay conservative college buddy of mine is big into the 4th turning and sees it as predictive rather than descriptive.
Basically he supports Trump because he wants to see the current system crash and burn and Trump is the best way to expedite the process.
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A gay conservative college buddy of mine is big into the 4th turning and sees it as predictive rather than descriptive.
Basically he supports Trump because he wants to see the current system crash and burn and Trump is the best way to expedite the process.
‘I’m going to start my home remodel by lighting it on fire.’
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A gay conservative college buddy of mine is big into the 4th turning and sees it as predictive rather than descriptive.
Basically he supports Trump because he wants to see the current system crash and burn and Trump is the best way to expedite the process.
MAGA?
re: #194 Sir John Barron
MAGA?
Mostly just cantankerous and contrarian, hates government and has stated that his life’s task is to help undo all traces of the New Deal
A gay Steve Bannon. He was also a big Milo and Breitbart fan back in the day.
I tried discussing politics with him, but when you corner him he either changes the subject or goes ad hominem. I still hear from his husband once in a while, who is conservative but not as obnoxious about it.
The new wingnut hot takes on Twitter are that Guiliani, Powell don’t need to show evidence because liberals don’t deserve to see it.
Conservatism is weird.
Geez, ya think?!
Every man has his price, and for Rudy Giuliani, it appears to be $20,000 a day.
Several people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times that Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and President Trump’s personal lawyer, has asked the Trump campaign for $20,000 a day to cover his legal services. Giuliani is overseeing the campaign’s many court challenges in Trump’s attempt to change the outcome of the election.
Multiple Trump advisers and aides opposed Giuliani receiving such a hefty amount, the Times reports, and it’s unclear how much Giuliani will get when the legal battles are done. Giuliani denied the report, telling the Times he “never asked for $20,000.” He added that anyone who says he requested $20,000 a day is “a liar, a complete liar,” and “the arrangement is, we’ll work it out at the end.”
On Nov. 4, the day after the election, Giuliani approached Trump and asked to get paid for his legal services, people with knowledge of the matter told the Times. Giuliani has been encouraging Trump to believe in baseless conspiracy theories about voting machine irregularities and other claims of fraud, the sources added, and they believe he is fanning the flames so Trump continues to file lawsuits, thus lining Giuliani’s pockets.
The best part of this is that the joke’s on Trump. At this point, Trump would be better off having Jacob Wohl as his attorney. Hell, my next-door neighbor’s dog could do a better job of it. If Rudy defended someone on trial for shoplifting a Snickers bar, I have little doubt his hapless client would get the chair.
Having said that, I truly hope he retains Rudy for all those legal cases coming up after he’s out. Trump will end up at ADX Florence.
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A gay conservative college buddy of mine is big into the 4th turning and sees it as predictive rather than descriptive.
Basically he supports Trump because he wants to see the current system crash and burn and Trump is the best way to expedite the process.
Right, it doesn’t make a prediction but does warn that we are in for a change. It could go either way.
It was an apolitical book.
re: #196 Sir John Barron
The new wingnut hot takes on Twitter are that Guiliani, Powell don’t need to show evidence because liberals don’t deserve to see it.
Conservatism is weird.
They just need the votes to be suspended, they “will provide evidence later”.
re: #198 Axolotl
Right, it doesn’t make a prediction but does warn that we are in for a change. It could go either way.
It was an apolitical book.
I gathered that from my research, but people have weaponized it to shore up their political agenda just like those who reject Evolution but embrace Social Darwinism.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They just need the votes to be suspended, they “will provide evidence later”.
sure, what’s wrong with that?
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re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The longer Trump reinforces his message of a stolen election, the greater the likelihood of widespread RW militia terrorism and violence. They will see themselves as the “patriotic underground” defending (White) America against widespread Democrat corruption.
Red Dawn, redux.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They just need the votes to be suspended, they “will provide evidence later”.
Just give the Stock market a $500 billion bailout, we will produce the oversight later
Official @GOP suggests a landslide, too big to question, it’s obvious, no proof required. In Trump’s case, “I’ll need a box of Magnums, because of course.”
The @GOP’s verified account sent this out. That he won in a landslide. Here, I think, the party made official its break with American democracy. Not saying it wasn’t apparent before. It was. Just more official now. As ridiculous as Sydney Powell is, this is a sobering moment. https://t.co/b7mPpeEK3T
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) November 20, 2020
Agreed. It’s a watershed moment when a national party knowingly endorses a preposterous lie which undermines fundamental tenets of American democracy, as a final grasp to cling to power. There’s nothing left to save in the GOP.
— Steve (@restlow) November 20, 2020
re: #204 PrairieQueen
Official @GOP suggests a landslide, too big to question, it’s obvious, no proof required. In Trump’s case, “I’ll need a box of Magnums, because of course.”
“”We will not be intimidated…We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it. And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom.”—Sidney Powell”
Again, they could, - entirely within the bounds of reason and decorum - explain that results are not final until the EC convenes, and that they are pressing challenges that could alter the officially tallied and certified outcome of popular voting. But instead they are screeching “Trump won!”.
This is not a legal challenge, it is an illegal maneuver to overturn valid results.
re: #202 Colère Tueur de Lapin
You think they’re going to come door to door like the Nazis? I better get a rifle with a scope. Long driveway. Make it sporting.
I always wondered when the crazy militia types go off the rails, are they going to start in the rural areas or start shooting in the big cities? Will they take over grocery stores and pick us off when we go for food? Maybe I should see how it went down in the banana republics to get an idea.
re: #179 steve_davis
So you aren’t hoping that the White House decides to go for Masada in a couple weeks?
Could almost see them doing Waco or Ruby Ridge.
re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Looks like the GOP is going all in to establish a dictatorship, consequences be damned.
re: #209 Dr Lizardo
Looks like the GOP is going all in to establish a dictatorship, consequences be damned.
They don’t retreat, they reload. This is their only remaining option. They have to hold onto the Senate or fade into irrelevance.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They don’t retreat, they reload. This is their only remaining option. They have to hold onto the Senate or fade into irrelevance.
And if they do end up losing the Senate, what are they gonna do? Refuse to seat the two elected Democratic Senators?
Actually, yeah, I could see them trying to pull something like that.
re: #207 PrairieQueen
You think they’re going to come door to door like the Nazis? I better get a rifle with a scope. Long driveway. Make it sporting.
I always wondered when the crazy militia types go off the rails, are they going to start in the rural areas or start shooting in the big cities? Will they take over grocery stores and pick us off when we go for food? Maybe I should see how it went down in the banana republics to get an idea.
We’ve had sporadic cross burnings within 15 miles of here over the last decade. My chief of police named his kid “Nathan Bedford”. The nutcase structures are already in place.
Still, there is only a slight chance of more than solo violence, and I can empty my yard at least once.
re: #211 Dr Lizardo
If they lose the senate - and I hope against hope they do - I see indictments. This won’t be about Biden thinking everyone needs a Xanax and a timeout to heal, I see indictments that will make Watergate look like a grade school play’s dress rehearsal by comparison. I see a unified commitment to hold these people accountable.
That’s my wish. That’s my dream. It’s all I want for Christmas. That is what would facilitate tearing this trajectory down to its core.
re: #211 Dr Lizardo
And if they do end up losing the Senate, what are they gonna do? Refuse to seat the two elected Democratic Senators?
Actually, yeah, I could see them trying to pull something like that.
They will contest the outcome of any election they do not win…remember that they are not contesting the outcomes of the down-ticket races where they actually gained seats, only the Presidential election.
We have the TV on Good Morning America. It has become our favorite morning show, and this morning they came as close as they could to saying bullshit to Trump and Giuliani.
re: #212 Decatur Deb
We’ve had sporadic cross burnings within 15 miles of here over the last decade. My chief of police named his kid “Nathan Bedford”. The nutcase structures are already in place.
Still, there is only a slight chance of more than solo violence, and I can empty my yard at least once.
they will provoke and prod until the authorities are compelled to crack down on them and then scream bloody murder that they are being repressed by a tyrannical authoritarian leftist regime
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A gay conservative college buddy of mine is big into the 4th turning and sees it as predictive rather than descriptive.
Basically he supports Trump because he wants to see the current system crash and burn and Trump is the best way to expedite the process.
It’s not a system, it’s a fucking country with a lot of people.
re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s not a system, it’s a fucking country with a lot of people.
There are lots of people on both the right and left ends of the political spectrum who are convinced that our current politco-economic-social system is too sick and corrupt to sustain itself much longer and the sooner it collapses, the quicker we can start rebuilding it, obviously under the aegis of a strong authoritarian leader of their choice…
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A gay conservative college buddy of mine is big into the 4th turning and sees it as predictive rather than descriptive.
Basically he supports Trump because he wants to see the current system crash and burn and Trump is the best way to expedite the process.
That is a popular attitude among the extreme left as well.
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So a local law enforcement person names his kid Nathan Bedford. Where do you even go with this? It’s Klukkertown, USA. And they’re the ones with the guns. Sickening.
The GOP was wiped out in 1964 but came roaring back to win the Presidency in 1968. No matter how much we wish they were on their deathbed, they will return because this nation has settled into a two party system over the past 150 years. What we have to hope is that somehow it’s possible to purge their devotion to autocracy and oligarchy — and that won’t be possible with the current members of the party in either the House or Senate. The few who objected have not been able to gain the loyalty of the Republican base.
When you lose the “women should be executed for having abortions” guy, you’re in trouble.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 20, 2020
re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter
The GOP was wiped out in 1964 but came roaring back to win the Presidency in 1968.
Nixon resigned in ignominy in 1974 and they won in a landslide in 1980 Bush I brought us a recession and the Clinton years.
Bush II won only by a hair but was enough of a disaster to cost them the Presidency for eight years, but they clawed their way back by 2016.
They will not go away, but their dependence on a rabid QAnon-fuelled base will increase.
Trump is a bully. He’s a sociopath. And when the Secret Service comes to yank him and his cronies out of the WH in January, he’ll go meekly because that’s how people like him act when confronted by actual authority and force.
He and his cronies committed more crimes this week in plain view, and there’s still a collective shrug by everyone, mostly because people can’t believe what they just saw.
Trump attempted a coup. He interfered in state elections, trying to get millions of legitimately cast and counted votes thrown out to deliver him a win.
That’s high crimes territory once again. That’s all Trump does. He engages in felony conduct to cover up other felonies and to avoid indictments after leaving office. All that’s saved us from the complete breakdown of democracy and the election process is a handful of state and local officials who followed the law and ignored Trump.
But because he failed doesn’t mean Trump’s off the hook for any of this. All of those involved engaged in felony conduct. That includes Ellis, Rudy, and the rest of the crackerjack lawyers who are pushing this bulkshit. They knew what the endgame was, and they openly stated their goal was overturning the outcome of the election.
They openly stated this was a coup attempt. They’re still at it.
They just hope enough right wing lunatics that form the GOP base buy into it and try to subvert the transition and hamstring the incoming administration all during a pandemic where Trump’s response has been worse than awful.
So, last night Ivanka goes on and claims that she’s being harassed by state/local law enforcement officials at this point.
Harassment. That’s how mafia crime families view FBI investigations that turn up dead bodies and RICO and wire fraud, mail fraud, and countless other crimes.
The Trump crime syndicate is finally getting the criminal justice scrutiny it long deserved.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 20, 2020
All that’s missing is Trump and crew to be hauled out in their bath robes and Trump trying to pull a Vincent Chin Gigante routine claiming that he’s just a doddering old guy, and not a crime boss who engaged in an attempted coup against the government of the United States after trying to extort and exhort foreign powers to interfere in the election to benefit him personally and directly on at least two separate occasions in two separate elections.
Something less exasperating: Dinosaurs. I remember as a kid it was a big deal to get a new dinosaur book, or find them at the library. This website celebrates dino art and books. chasmosaurs.com
Oh that fuckin’ guy. For a brief moment, I forgot he was alive.
Alan Dershowitz, surfacing from his underwearabouts, just claimed that Trump has a strategy involving the Supreme Court and he will win. The Supreme Court will cease to exist if it becomes a tool for treason. In this paradigm Al Gore would have fought them and won.
— Buddy Winston (@budwin9) November 20, 2020
re: #172 Dr Lizardo
Smart move to make for Biden is to keep those cards close to his chest; don’t even hint at what possible course of action might be taken, because these GOP asshats might become even more desperate than they already are.
Give these SOBs plenty of rope to hang themselves with - and then spring the trap sometime in February or March of next year with a DOJ announcement of a wide-ranging investigation into possible Republican electoral fraud and announce that the DOJ will be cooperating with state authorities in pursuit of the matter.
Surprise, motherfuckers! And watch ‘em squirm.
And that will be when you see a lot of wingnuts get trigger happy. The FBI will need to be ready.
re: #18 b.d. (We Won!)
Thanks Tucker
Don’t worry Tucker will claim within a few days that the UFOs were stealing Trump ballots.
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re: #29 Eric The Fruit Bat
Trump is trying to start a civil war in Michigan.
He may get his wish.
He wants the ballot piles to be the right height.
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re: #227 PrairieQueen
Oh that fuckin’ guy. For a brief moment, I forgot he was alive.
Why else was the GOP so intent on filling the RBG seat as soon as possible with a pro-Trump bimbo?
Idea was to have this election brought before SCOTUS.
Would have worked if the outcome had been closer and it was the matter of say, one state tipping the balance.
But now the GOP has no choice but to go through with it and burn the whole thing down to prevent from losing.
I spy FIVE Republican governors on this call with the President-Elect — including Alabama, Utah and Arkansas https://t.co/FzKnf6uNkO
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) November 19, 2020
re: #232 Belafon
Trump will now claim those 5 are ex communicado. They are dead to him.
re: #232 Belafon
Incoming Twitter meltdown in 5…4…3…2…
The Biden transition team is in the process of vetting Rep. Deb Haaland for the Interior secretary post, sources told The Hill.
If tapped by Biden, Haaland’s nomination would be historic, making her the first Native American Cabinet secretary.https://t.co/reUEwwwXvR— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 18, 2020
Yes, that’s Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), Haaland’s counterpart on the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. QUITE an endorsement: https://t.co/rGH8YSyUGK
— Emma Dumain (@Emma_Dumain) November 18, 2020
re: #233 lawhawk
Trump will now claim those 5 are ex communicado. They are dead to him.
So first he forgets that there are large numbers of Republicans living in Blue States…now those Red States that do not go along with his desperate gambit are also to be written off.
But not to worry, Steiner’s counter-attack will clear things up…
Looks like lots of people are having fun with twitter labels:
The Twitter warning labels are getting better. pic.twitter.com/1kD7JTd8OJ
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) November 16, 2020
More positive #COVID19 #vaccine news.
From UK, @AstraZeneca clinical trials show >70-yr-olds get immune resps w/their vax = to those seen in <55-yr-olds. https://t.co/hedOayNiiV
And
China’s Sinovac vax induces antibodies against the virus in <14 days. https://t.co/zXxPBN59WL— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 19, 2020
My county (Franklin) just passed a mandatory mask mandate. FINALLY.
My wife and I made the local (St. Louis) news when a reporter was asking for reactions. He seems surprised at the support for the mandate in his “sample”.
We are at the 1:31 mark.
JAW-DROPPING — nearly half of all #COVID19 tests in #Iowa are coming back positive.
Gov. Kim Reynolds — #Republican
Both Senators @ChuckGrassley & @SenJoniErnst are #GOP — and Grassley is COVID+.
2 days ago Reynolds mandated mask-wearing after long refusing to do so. https://t.co/b46dm8rOPF— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 19, 2020
Where colloidal silver, bunker boys, ancient aliens and politics meet.
This is pure gold, from Kevin Williamson: pic.twitter.com/d8YwQ8W8C1
— David French (@DavidAFrench) November 20, 2020
No more fish sticks for us. Dammit.
The food company Nowaco took a hard hit. On Thursday afternoon, the production hall, where the company processes fish products, started burning. Preliminarily calculated damage is at least in the order of tens of millions of crowns!
Thirty years of work ended up in ashes in a matter of hours. Literally. Thursday’s fire in the production hall of the food company Nowaco was devastating. When firefighters arrived at the scene, large flames whipped from the roof of the building and the situation continued to deteriorate.
Firefighters not only put out the fire itself, but also focused on protecting the surrounding buildings so that the fire would not spread further. Although dozens of firefighters from all over the area intervened in Kralupy nad Vltavou, Nowaco now finds itself facing enormous monetary damages.
Source, in Czech: blesk.cz
re: #172 Dr Lizardo
Smart move to make for Biden is to keep those cards close to his chest; don’t even hint at what possible course of action might be taken, because these GOP asshats might become even more desperate than they already are.
Give these SOBs plenty of rope to hang themselves with - and then spring the trap sometime in February or March of next year with a DOJ announcement of a wide-ranging investigation into possible Republican electoral fraud and announce that the DOJ will be cooperating with state authorities in pursuit of the matter.
Surprise, motherfuckers! And watch ‘em squirm.
Just say you’re investigating electoral fraud. If a Democrat or two get caught up in it as well that’s not a bad thing. All part of reestablishing that the DOJ will operate independent of partisan politics.
Unfuc…. nope. Totally fucking believable. All these Trumpists didn’t care that covid19 was real and deadly dangerous. It’s only a matter of time before one of these Trumpists dies from covid.
All because none of them would mask b/c Trump bullied them into ignoring reality.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 20, 2020
re: #239 carey94tt
Thanks for weighing in on TV, and I hope your wife doesn’t have anyone go crazy on her if they refuse to wear a mask!
Trumpworld has been most successful at mass distribution of the virus.
There’s zero indication that they have a plan to distribute the vaccine. All we have is vaporware claims that they wont even share with the incoming administration. https://t.co/jcPBtPoryS— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 20, 2020
Trumpworld’s also setting Biden up for having to deal with a massive financial crisis on top of everything else, and we all know damn well that the GOP will suddenly pivot and claim fiscal responsibility mandates that we slash and burn the safety net to save the economy, when the reality is that reversing the TCJA tax cuts for millionaires and corporations is a first step.
re: #245 lawhawk
Inbox: Republican Sen. Rick Scott has tested positive for COVID-19.
That’s him and Grassley this week, and considering how seriously they’ve been taking COVID precautions, I’d assume more gooper senators are going to get it if they haven’t already. Just statistically, that’s a decent possibility that one or more will be out of commission for a good amount of time unable to vote, and that shouldn’t be overlooked.
re: #249 ericblair
Given the spread, Feinstein’s also likely to get it.
She stupidly wasn’t masking up in walking around the Capitol. That’s just nuts.
At this point, both chambers should be having rules in place that everyone must be masked at all times while on Capitol Hill or the office building complexes. Anyone who refuses will be escorted off.
And Bill Cassidy also tested positive, @seungminkim reminds
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) November 20, 2020
Trump should have ADX Florence named after him. Because that’s where he belongs.
He should have cemeteries named after him. Bedminster should be turned into a cemetery to remind everyone that he lost and killed 250,000+ Americans w/failed pandemic response.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 20, 2020
re: #239 carey94tt
My county (Franklin) just passed a mandatory mask mandate. FINALLY.
My wife and I made the local (St. Louis) news when a reporter was asking for reactions. He seems surprised at the support for the mandate in his “sample”.
We are at the 1:31 mark.
I thought you were taller
Your wife too…
re: #249 ericblair
That’s him and Grassley this week, and considering how seriously they’ve been taking COVID precautions, I’d assume more gooper senators are going to get it if they haven’t already. Just statistically, that’s a decent possibility that one or more will be out of commission for a good amount of time unable to vote, and that shouldn’t be overlooked.
That would be my dearest hope — that several become seriously ill and have to be hospitalized in the next few days for at least 4 months. And that Mitch becomes sufficiently ill that he can no longer function. That seems to be our only real hope in getting control of the Senate.
re: #250 lawhawk
Given the spread, Feinstein’s also likely to get it.
She stupidly wasn’t masking up in walking around the Capitol. That’s just nuts.
At this point, both chambers should be having rules in place that everyone must be masked at all times while on Capitol Hill or the office building complexes. Anyone who refuses will be escorted off.
Germany had a blow up when its Right-Wing populist party, the AfD refused to wear masks in Parliament. Latest blowup involved two AfD members who allowed outsiders in to disrupt Parliament…
Wienar Republic
re: #252 lawhawk
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I do indeed intend to refer to it as “the vaccine for the trump virus”. Is that what he means?
Oh, good morning!
re: #254 Hecuba’s daughter
That would be my dearest hope — that several become seriously ill and have to be hospitalized in the next few days for at least 4 months. And that Mitch becomes sufficiently ill that he can no longer function. That seems to be our only real hope in getting control of the Senate.
Until a big name becomes very sick, little will change in the minds of the IT’S JUST THE FLU crowd.
re: #248 lawhawk
There’s zero indication that they have a plan to distribute the vaccine. All we have is vaporware claims that they wont even share with the incoming administration.
They will release it right after they reveal their new Health Care Plan…
re: #254 Hecuba’s daughter
That would be my dearest hope — that several become seriously ill and have to be hospitalized in the next few days for at least 4 months. And that Mitch becomes sufficiently ill that he can no longer function. That seems to be our only real hope in getting control of the Senate.
Given their advanced years (to put it politely) that’s not a remote possibility.
re: #225 lawhawk
Trump is a bully. He’s a sociopath. And when the Secret Service comes to yank him and his cronies out of the WH in January, he’ll go meekly because that’s how people like him act when confronted by actual authority and force.
This weakness is the counterargument for the cult of personality buoying Trump any further into the future. If Trumpism is built on the idea of him as a strongman then he will have failed the cult.
Excellent work so far https://t.co/Zw5AJH8Xst
— Kate Harding (@KateHarding) November 20, 2020
re: #254 Hecuba’s daughter
That would be my dearest hope — that several become seriously ill and have to be hospitalized in the next few days for at least 4 months. And that Mitch becomes sufficiently ill that he can no longer function. That seems to be our only real hope in getting control of the Senate.
Be careful what you wish for: SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t bother to check one’s party affiliation before infecting: it’s just as possible Capitol Hill Democrats can get it (especially given that Sen. Feinstein, for one, seems to have been ignoring masking precautions).
re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Until a big name becomes very sick, little will change in the minds of the IT’S JUST THE FLU crowd.
Of course Trump doesn’t care — the only big name that matters is his. It took Rock Hudson’s illness for this country to focus on AIDS. I’m not sure if the GOP would care about the death of any particular person from this disease. They don’t care about gun deaths — they won’t care about this. It’s only if a loved one becomes very ill that some individual Republicans may change their perspective — but not if it afflicts someone outside their immediate family circle.
Excellent work so far https://t.co/Zw5AJH8Xst
— Kate Harding (@KateHarding) November 20, 2020
Freudian slip???
re: #169 Teukka
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated”
— Opening address for the United States prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-11-21
That should be tattooed onto the insides of Steven Miller’s eyelids.
re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Until a big name becomes very sick, little will change in the minds of the IT’S JUST THE FLU crowd.
I sent you herman cain
I sent you boris johnson
I sent you trump himself
I sent you 6 R senators
What were you waiting for
re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will release it right after they reveal their new Health Care Plan…
So in two weeks…?
re: #260 Dr Lizardo
Given their advanced years (to put it politely) that’s not a remote possibility.
The virus flipping the senate would be some interesting poetic justice for the history books
re: #269 dangerman
The virus flipping the senate would be some interesting poetic justice for the history books
Yes indeed.
re: #11 thecommodore
Tucker Carlson must have been paid off handsomely by Soros.
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re: #239 carey94tt
My county (Franklin) just passed a mandatory mask mandate. FINALLY.
My wife and I made the local (St. Louis) news when a reporter was asking for reactions. He seems surprised at the support for the mandate in his “sample”.
We are at the 1:31 mark.
WFAA in Dallas did a viewer poll of Abbott’s handling of the virus. I’m not sure how the demographics work out to what channel people tune into in the morning around here, but 89% of the people who responded said he’s not doing it right.
re: #273 dangerman
re: #207 PrairieQueen
You think they’re going to come door to door like the Nazis? I better get a rifle with a scope. Long driveway. Make it sporting.
I always wondered when the crazy militia types go off the rails, are they going to start in the rural areas or start shooting in the big cities? Will they take over grocery stores and pick us off when we go for food? Maybe I should see how it went down in the banana republics to get an idea.
They’ll organize it on line and get picked up by the FBI with a car full of weapons and tactical gear at an interstate rest area.
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A gay conservative college buddy of mine is big into the 4th turning and sees it as predictive rather than descriptive.
Basically he supports Trump because he wants to see the current system crash and burn and Trump is the best way to expedite the process.
Ah, just like the DSA members here in Los Angeles who supported Howie Hawkins because they wanted Trump to get another term to burn down everything.
What they’re too stupid to realize is that when everything burns down there’s no fucking chance they can build their socialist utopia. Instead it will be a right wing theocracy out of the Handmaid’s Tale.
re: #276 stpaulbear
They’ll organize it on line and get picked up by the FBI with a car full of weapons and tactical gear at an interstate rest area.
They’ll get caught boning each other out behind the restrooms…
OMG. The affidavit Sidney Powell and others are hyping when they say many precincts in Michigan have more votes than actual voters is …. based on data from Minnesota.https://t.co/0nBQDX4nOf
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 20, 2020
Powerline, of all maniacs, is starting to think the Trump legal team might not know what the hell they are doing. But here’s the line from their story that I want to address:
It is hard to understand what motive lawyers like Sidney Powell and Lin Wood might have to make explosive claims that they cannot prove, which would be career-destroying.
No, it is not hard to understand their motives, and no, why would these explosive claims, if false as we know them to be, be career destroying? One thing we have learned from Trump presidency, and the Iraq war before that, is, nobody pays consequences for anything. What happened to Trump as a result of promoting Obama birtherism?
re: #204 PrairieQueen
Official @GOP suggests a landslide, too big to question, it’s obvious, no proof required. In Trump’s case, “I’ll need a box of Magnums, because of course.”
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As was pointed out yesterday, listen to her voice. That is not the voice of confidence.
And it was all of them. Rudy and Stupid Jenna were defensive, over-assertive, condescending. Panicked.
They are terrified, because they know they’re on borrowed time. And they know what’s coming after.
Conservative premiers are really fucking shit up. Crack bro Ford is sitting on 9 BILLION federal dollars and doing fuck all. Alberta is fucked beyond words with their ultra right wing loonies in charge, refusing to show the federal COVID app (which let’s you voluntarily report (anonymously) symptoms and positivity and notifies people who have been near you. This after attacking doctors, many of which are leaving because they are trying to cut all kinds of payments for both doctors and HC overall- and then trying to mandate that doctors couldn’t leave the province.
Trudeau to address Canadians on COVID-19 as Tam releases sobering new projections https://t.co/kiTNX2UsaC pic.twitter.com/zPU7vnhBa7
— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) November 20, 2020
re: #279 Sir John Barron
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Powerline, of all maniacs, is starting to think the Trump legal team might not know what the hell they are doing. But here’s the line from their story that I want to address:
No, it is not hard to understand their motives, and no, why would these explosive claims, if false as we know them to be, be career destroying? One thing we have learned from Trump presidency, and the Iraq war before that, is, nobody pays consequences for anything. What happened to Trump as a result of promoting Obama birtherism?
You’re describing two different careers, though. The political career is entirely dependent on the electorate, and we’ve found out that the party of morality will toss all morals to get what they want. But their ability to continue as lawyers will be significantly strained by this stuff.
re: #281 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“trying to mandate that doctors couldn’t leave the province”
How did they think that was going to work?
re: #267 dangerman
I sent you herman cain
I sent you boris johnson
I sent you trump himself
I sent you 6 R senatorsWhat were you waiting for
1. Black dude? Irrelevant.
2. Furrunir. Irrelevant.
3. He’s a God King! Hail!
4. Who? They’re all just fine, it’s just the flu.
re: #282 Belafon
You’re describing two different careers, though. The political career is entirely dependent on the electorate, and we’ve found out that the party of morality will toss all morals to get what they want. But their ability to continue as lawyers will be significantly strained by this stuff.
i was thinking that too however 70m+ people, some with money, is still a pretty good market
re: #233 lawhawk
Trump will now claim those 5 are ex communicado. They are dead to him.
I am a killer rabbit and I approve this message.
re: #274 Belafon
WFAA in Dallas did a viewer poll of Abbott’s handling of the virus. I’m not sure how the demographics work out to what channel people tune into in the morning around here, but 89% of the people who responded said he’s not doing it right.
Because he’s attempted, occasionally, to do the right thing?
But they’ll continue to vote in Republicans, yeah?
re: #279 Sir John Barron
One thing we have learned from Trump presidency, and the Iraq war before that, is, nobody pays consequences for anything. What happened to Trump as a result of promoting Obama birtherism?
Do we have to go through the list of things that Trump has done or said that would have wrecked the campaign or even the career of any other politician?
re: #283 PrairieQueen
Bigger issue is the official @GOP on Twitter is backing what they said. It isn’t just a gaggle of clowns looking like jackasses on television, it’s the official position of the GOP now.
Then they all deserve what’s coming to them.
Like Anymouse says, burn the fucking lifeboats.
I can’t help imagine what this country would look like if a one-term ‘D’ potus was doing this to an ‘R’ potus-elect. The armed militia would be taking to the streets. Every ‘R’ politician would be screeching into every microphone they could find. Fox “news” would have to restock fainting couches on a daily basis.
re: #276 stpaulbear
They’ll organize it on line and get picked up by the FBI with a car full of weapons and tactical gear at an interstate rest area.
Or maybe they’ll do something so egregious there’s suddenly widespread support for some meaningful gun control.
re: #284 jaunte
How did they think that was going to work?
They didn’t. It was just a knee jerk reaction because they apparently didn’t realize that a constant barrage of insults and death threats would get doctors thinking about moving elsewhere.
These are conservatives after all. They’re not really known for thinking ahead.
re: #288 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Because he’s attempted, occasionally, to do the right thing?
But they’ll continue to vote in Republicans, yeah?
Dallas and Tarrant counties both went to Biden. Overall, I think the entire Metroplex is slightly Republican, but not like the the parts of the state that aren’t DFW, Houston, San Antonio, or Austin.
Now he is calling the election a “HOAX!!!”
We have great support on the Election Hoax! https://t.co/ChpkuZvc4s
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2020
re: #284 jaunte
How did they think that was going to work?
It’s quite baffling. They put out a paper saying doctors couldn’t leave until they transitioned all their patients to another doctor and other things.
Pretty much everyone was like, so doctors, DOCTORS, are your slaves? It didn’t go over well. At all.
…or that ‘chaos is what he loves’. The core of it is that he knows he’s in deep, multi-dimensional legal jeopardy & this defines his every action. We’re seeing 1) a tactical delay of the transition to buy time for coverup & evidence suppression 2) above all, a desperate endgame
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
His ‘turn card’ bluff will be an escalation & his ‘River card’ bluff could be really ugly. But they have to be called. We cannot let this mobster bully the USA into a deal to save his ass by threatening our democracy. THAT is his play. But he’s got junk in his hand. So call him.
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
re: #298 lawhawk
But his contemptible, treasonous, seditious assault on the stability of our political compact isn’t about 2024, personal enrichment or anything else other than trying to use chaos & threat to the foundation of the system as leverage to trade for a safe exit. Call. His. Bluff.
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Until a big name becomes very sick, little will change in the minds of the IT’S JUST THE FLU crowd.
I wonder who will be the Rock Hudson in this plague that finally makes people wake up?
re: #302 🌹UOJB!
I wonder who will be the Rock Hudson in this plague that finally makes people wake up?
If the floor is open for nominations, it should be Mitch McConnell. Do I hear a second?
re: #303 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If the floor is open for nominations, it should be Mitch McConnell. Do I hear a second?
If he dies from it, I’ll declare it’s just like the flu.
re: #300 Belafon
That’s going to require all of us to stand fast.
And stay calm at the same time. Don’t set our own hair on fire. Pay attention to what’s happening and don’t demand that it all happens right now. Be insistent about change but not screechy.
And can we please stop talking about who we’re going to have to be ready to shoot?
re: #305 stpaulbear
And can we please stop talking about who we’re going to have to be ready to shoot?
I am more concerned about other people who are ready to start shooting.
re: #304 Belafon
If he dies from it, I’ll declare it’s just like the flu.
Does Kentucky law require that a replacement appointment for a dead senator be of the same party? Can Bashear just “hey, the rules don’t forbid it…”
re: #279 Sir John Barron
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OMG. The affidavit Sidney Powell and others are hyping when they say many precincts in Michigan have more votes than actual voters is …. based on data from Minnesota.https://t.co/0nBQDX4nOf
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 20, 2020
how it might have happened
OMG. Trump’s lawyers filed an affidavit claiming statistical irregularities proving election fraud because they *confused Michigan for Minnesota*
They thought “MI” = Minnesota (it’s MN), and then compared a bunch of results in Minnesota to Michigan population statistics. https://t.co/nu9FMgSuqY— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul) November 20, 2020
re: #308 dangerman
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The whole state abbreviation thing is a George Soros Antifa Hoax and I have proof and evidence.
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re: #299 lawhawk
he’s also a whiny, sulky, petulant, Grinchy, vindictive little 10-ply-super-soft bitch
Damn, son
re: #310 makeitstop
Damn, son
I know, right? That’s some master class cussing. I wish I came up with that first.
re: #308 dangerman
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Clearly this means that we need a recount in Minnesota. There is obviously fuckery afoot.///
re: #308 dangerman
And yet this “fraud” is now forever ingrained into low-information MAGAt crowd.
re: #314 thedopefishlives
Clearly this means that we need a recount in Minnesota. There is obviously fuckery afoot.///
And what about Maine?
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And what about Maine?
and MISSISSISSISSIPPI!!!!
re: #317 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, MA, of course.
MA = Maine
MS = Massachusetts
MI = Mississippi
HA! Proof we won Michigan!
Rick Scott tests positive for coronavirus
Tots and hammers
We really need 2,000 retweets on this. We’re funding rides to the polls for voters in Georgia. We need your help to get people without transportation to the polls. Retweet & chip in here to help us get our voters to the polls and retake the senate. 🙏https://t.co/dZXPYeEu0m
— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) November 20, 2020
re: #324 Dr. Matt
Rick Scott tests positive for coronavirus
Tots and hammers
it’s a beautiful day here in broward county
i hope rick and marco have been talking
newsmax is throwing some very fine shade while still sounding pro-GOP
Birthday Time: Biden Turns 78, Will Be Oldest US President
Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In two months, he is expected to take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment, and a reckoning on racial injustice.
It’s buried in there amongst the criticism, but even the site that Trump has directed his followers to after Fox has abandoned him is making it clear who won
Rudy’s son, who got himself a WH job thanks to nepotism, has covid. https://t.co/UXsAelKPzi
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 20, 2020
re: #277 🌹UOJB!
Ah, just like the DSA members here in Los Angeles who supported Howie Hawkins because they wanted Trump to get another term to burn down everything.
What they’re too stupid to realize is that when everything burns down there’s no fucking chance they can build their socialist utopia. Instead it will be a right wing theocracy out of the Handmaid’s Tale.
Far Lefties seem to want a Star Trek NG agrarian society where the “away team” always seems to run into a small village with a wise elder or council of experts managing everything and everyone is happy…until the outsiders bring violence.
Our Trumpies and other far right wackos want and prepare for the other end of the spectrum… Mad Max.
The two outlooks are both unworkable in real life, at least as envisioned by the faithful.
re: #307 sagehen
Does Kentucky law require that a replacement appointment for a dead senator be of the same party? Can Bashear just “hey, the rules don’t forbid it…”
re: #292 sagehen
Or maybe they’ll do something so egregious there’s suddenly widespread support for some meaningful gun control.
There is widespread support for meaningful gun control now. Can’t get it through Congress.
I can’t make out any of this but…
“Will you honor the will of the Michigan voters?”
Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey is met by protesters as he arrives in Washington to meet with President Trump on Friday. pic.twitter.com/Edw7JIlDv9— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 20, 2020
re: #308 dangerman
The gang that can’t lawyer straight, Day 17
…or that ‘chaos is what he loves’. The core of it is that he knows he’s in deep, multi-dimensional legal jeopardy & this defines his every action. We’re seeing 1) a tactical delay of the transition to buy time for coverup & evidence suppression 2) above all, a desperate endgame
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
His ‘turn card’ bluff will be an escalation & his ‘River card’ bluff could be really ugly. But they have to be called. We cannot let this mobster bully the USA into a deal to save his ass by threatening our democracy. THAT is his play. But he’s got junk in his hand. So call him.
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
But his contemptible, treasonous, seditious assault on the stability of our political compact isn’t about 2024, personal enrichment or anything else other than trying to use chaos & threat to the foundation of the system as leverage to trade for a safe exit. Call. His. Bluff.
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
Conservatives to Ed Norton: “SHUT UP AND ACT!”
re: #307 sagehen
Does Kentucky law require that a replacement appointment for a dead senator be of the same party? Can Bashear just “hey, the rules don’t forbid it…”
Have someone change her party to repug, appoint her, then she can become an independent caucusing with the democrats.
Yes, I have a specific someone in mind.
Trump literally burning the country to the ground via The Fed
Trump is stripping away the power of the Fed’s emergency measures and Biden will need Congressional approval to restore them when he takes office. Trump is now factually trying to tank the economy and the stock market before Biden takes office.
This is a Break Glass Emergency point in Trump’s Ongoing coup against the country. This is literally a point of time right now where the ability of the USA to survive is in grave doubt.
re: #340 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Have someone change her party to repug, appoint her, then she can become an independent caucusing with the democrats.
Yes, I have a specific someone in mind.
Beshear doesn’t have to appoint someone of the same party.
An evidentiary hearing is about to start in the latest iteration of “Sharpiegate,” re: ballots in Maricopa Cty. The case isn’t trying to stop results from being certified, though — the relief plaintiffs seek wouldn’t affect Biden’s lead in AZ.
Complaint: https://t.co/yQdJWthRqH— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 20, 2020
So what are the plaintiffs asking for? One, who says her ballot was canceled because of sharpie issues, is asking to cast another one. The plaintiffs otherwise want the court to declare that Maricopa County violated the law and voters’ rights — but not to disqualify votes pic.twitter.com/RvjsUwekeg
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 20, 2020
Republicans who know better but are staying silent now are under the delusion that they’ll be safe in a coup regime. Trump does not reward loyalty. There is no “loyalty” in fascism, only submission and pain, and it comes for everyone.
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) November 20, 2020
re: #344 jaunte
Republicans who know better but are staying silent now are under the delusion that they’ll be safe in a coup regime. Trump does not reward loyalty. There is no “loyalty” in fascism, only submission and pain, and it comes for everyone.
Loyalty has to be demonstrated on a daily basis. Simply supporting the Trump through one crisis does not secure anyone’s position…
re: #341 Florida Panhandler
Trump literally burning the country to the ground via The Fed
Trump is stripping away the power of the Fed’s emergency measures and Biden will need Congressional approval to restore them when he takes office. Trump is now factually trying to tank the economy and the stock market before Biden takes office.
This is a Break Glass Emergency point in Trump’s Ongoing coup against the country. This is literally a point of time right now where the ability of the USA to survive is in grave doubt.
The Treasury also instructed Fed Chairman Jay Powell to return the unused portion of a $454bn account approved by Congress during the market meltdown in March.
This seed money gave the Fed $4.5 trillion extra lending power under a policy of 10:1 leverage and had an electrifying effect on market confidence - avoiding the errors made in 2008.
Roughly $250bn remains and could be amplified into a real lending bazooka under Joe Biden if Congress blocks his reflation plan. It has therefore become a high stakes bone of contention.
Tell him no and make them sue.
Did anyone else watch Bauer this morning? He punted when asked directly about whether these issues constitute crimes, or if they might be prosecuted. He didn’t say yes, didn’t say no, but left it open-ended. I hope to hell that means yes.
The Biden campaign’s top legal official on Friday lambasted Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results as “pathetic,” “appalling,” “ludicrous,” “discriminatory” and ultimately “doomed to failure.”
The comments by Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to Biden who is leading the election litigation effort, had a dual purpose of calling out Trump’s behavior and assuring the country that the president-elect’s team sees no possibility that Trump will succeed in his efforts.
re: #341 Florida Panhandler
Trump literally burning the country to the ground via The Fed
Trump is stripping away the power of the Fed’s emergency measures and Biden will need Congressional approval to restore them when he takes office. Trump is now factually trying to tank the economy and the stock market before Biden takes office.
This is a Break Glass Emergency point in Trump’s Ongoing coup against the country. This is literally a point of time right now where the ability of the USA to survive is in grave doubt.
We have too many break glass emergencies running concurrently for a new one to hit hard. But the one thing repugs can be counted on to do is protect big money. This would adversely affect big money.
re: #341 Florida Panhandler
Trump literally burning the country to the ground via The Fed
Trump is stripping away the power of the Fed’s emergency measures and Biden will need Congressional approval to restore them when he takes office. Trump is now factually trying to tank the economy and the stock market before Biden takes office.
This is a Break Glass Emergency point in Trump’s Ongoing coup against the country. This is literally a point of time right now where the ability of the USA to survive is in grave doubt.
Trump has the full cooperation of the GOP. They will burn this country down to maintain power. Even those who “congratulated” Biden have shown little interest in dissenting from the Republican Party line.
re: #348 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
We have too many break glass emergencies running concurrently for a new one to hit hard. But the one thing repugs can be counted on to do is protect big money. This would adversely affect big money.
That said, Republicans are not known for their desire to do anything positive, and you have stupidity (hi Rand Paul, et al) so I’m not gonna bet the house on that.
re: #349 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump has the full cooperation of the GOP. They will burn this country down to maintain power. Even those who “congratulated” Biden have shown little interest in dissenting from the Republican Party line.
They need him until the Georgia runoffs. After that, their attitude will cool off considerably and if they lose, they will really turn on him.
re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am more concerned about other people who are ready to start shooting.
I’ve been thinking for quite a while that the fascist element’s fetish for guns, personally-owned small arms, may be an exploitable weakness. This is the real reason I taunt them about not having all the guns. The terrorist “militia” movement is a subset of the American gun culture. In many ways it is an extreme rationale for owning guns, rather than the claimed opposite, that they have guns because they oppose the “tyranny” of liberal society. There are, of course, many ideologically committed racists and fascists in the movement, but they are essentially piggy-backing on the gun culture.
As such it has an analog in the world of military politics, the constant (and often very harmful) rivalry among the “platform lobbies.” This refers to a commitment to a particular methodology, represented by the platform that embodies it, among those who are professionally involved in that methodology. Professional aviators propose that aviation is the key to winning future conflicts and they are opposed by the advocates of artillery, submariners propose the same for submarines and skirmish constantly with the advocates of surface ships. This is about money in both cases, the competition for budget allocations in the military and commercial competition for discretionary consumer spending in the gun culture.
The gun goobers have ONE platform, privately owned small arms. In the past, right-wingers have also favored bombs but that has faded under the pressure of regulation, and the rise of the NRA and the gun industry to political prominence. The makers of explosives are vehemently opposed to the use of their products by terrorists and political bullies. The makers of guns, aided and abetted by the NRA and its political tools, are not.
For extremists, the gun culture is essentially a religion. Guns, like God, cannot fail, they can only be failed. If guns do fail, the cultists will not change their methods. They will double down and rationalize until they vanish.
re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They need him until the Georgia runoffs. After that, their attitude will cool off considerably and if they lose, they will really turn on him.
There’s a marathon of reruns playing on FX (Fuck X, where X is everyone) of this magical thinking.
They’ll turn on him after labor day.
They’ll turn on him off he loses.
Don’t count on it because it’s not going to happen.
re: #353 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s gone completely off the rails, but the official GOP position is now “Yup, that’s right. What that guy Trump said - that’s what we’re going with.” So at his absolute worst, the GOP still nods their head. I don’t see them dumping anyone for any reason, especially if it riles their base. Not racists, rapists, thieves, cons, murder plotters - nobody will be shitcanned if they’re useful.
Thread. O.O
I’m no political pundit but I grew up w a dad who was a federal prosecutor & he taught me a lot & I’ve also sat a fair amount of poker w serious players & l’ll say this: I do not think Trump is trying to ‘make his base happy’ or ‘laying the groundwork for his own network’…
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
re: #355 Teukka
Thread. O.O
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It’s been posted twice before you with all four tweets. It seems to be popular.
re: #356 Belafon
It’s been posted twice before you with all four tweets. It seems to be popular.
My bad. Thought it was fresh.
re: #353 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
There’s a marathon of reruns playing on FX (Fuck X, where X is everyone) of this magical thinking.
They’ll turn on him after labor day.
They’ll turn on him off he loses.
Don’t count on it because it’s not going to happen.
There are over 73 million voters who looked at his handling of coronavirus, who saw his bullying and racism, who listened to him praise autocrats, and who then said: “Yep, this is who we want”. The GOP* knows that is their base and they are sticking to this monster because they are all monsters too. (*Excludes a few — very few —state level Republicans)
Oh I open the junk mail folder and see relatives getting a note from their Presidential Prayer team to pray for Rick Scott and Andy Giuliani…oh and they also pray for God’s judgement on Rachel Maddow’s spouse…
Nice to see that Xtian compassion for a thief and a traitor’s son…and I’m not surprised at all to see the hatred directed at Susan…
Sings a hymn, like he’s the bastion of virtue being put on a cross.//
This morning, I asked @SenMikeShirkey if he would honor the will of Michigan voters in his meeting with Trump today. He responded by singing a hymn about being persecuted: pic.twitter.com/IQRXokq9F2
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) November 20, 2020
re: #360 🌹UOJB!
Oh I open the junk mail folder and see relatives getting a note from their Presidential Prayer team to pray for Rick Scott and Andy Giuliani…oh and they also pray for God’s judgement on Rachel Maddow’s spouse…
Nice to see that Xtian compassion for a thief and a traitor’s son…and I’m not surprised at all to see the hatred directed at Susan…
Flip it back on them and say you’re paying for Maddow’s spouse and for God’s judgement on Scott and Giuliani.
re: #360 🌹UOJB!
Oh I open the junk mail folder and see relatives getting a note from their Presidential Prayer team to pray for Rick Scott and Andy Giuliani…oh and they also pray for God’s judgement on Rachel Maddow’s spouse…
Nice to see that Xtian compassion for a thief and a traitor’s son…and I’m not surprised at all to see the hatred directed at Susan…
My God. Those are some hateful people.
I’m really sorry for you.
re: #364 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
My God. Those are some hateful people.
I’m really sorry for you.
They are brainwashed Xtians who insist Trump is Gawd’s Anointed King over us.
re: #366 🌹UOJB!
They are brainwashed Xtians who insist Trump is Gawd’s Anointed King over us.
When Biden is sworn in, send them a link to this.
re: #355 Teukka
As noted by many, Trump has nothing to lose by playing every trick in the book, but perhaps something to gain.
While the marks may still adore him, Trump out of office is going to run into trouble after trouble. And his entourage also, as well as his spawn, are not going to be immune from legal scrutiny.
At Trump’s age and position there is no reason for him to play carefully. He’s all in at this point.
This ass needs to be disbarred and banned from practicing law for the rest of her life. Wouldn’t hurt if she was arrested for sedition as well.
Trump attorney Sidney Powell fires back: Tucker Carlson was ‘insulting, demanding, and rude’ — https://t.co/leMZ1Scj7d — for @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/CTDKxZnJql
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) November 20, 2020
Lincoln Project is on it.
Voters chose America. Now, Michigan Republicans must do the same. pic.twitter.com/ETgbQakbFe
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) November 20, 2020
re: #352 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’ve been thinking for quite a while that the fascist element’s fetish for guns, personally-owned small arms, may be an exploitable weakness. …
For extremists, the gun culture is essentially a religion. Guns, like God, cannot fail, they can only be failed. If guns do fail, the cultists will not change their methods. They will double down and rationalize until they vanish.
They will be provoking and seeing how much they can get away with under Biden, mocking him if he does not crack down and branding him an authoritarian tyrant if he does.
It is ugly now and only gonna get uglier
re: #353 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
There’s a marathon of reruns playing on FX (Fuck X, where X is everyone) of this magical thinking.
They’ll turn on him after labor day.
They’ll turn on him off he loses.
Don’t count on it because it’s not going to happen.
Not so much turn on him, but they will finally sit him down and tell him to shut up and concede already
So, i was talking to my wife who just got back from her hair appointment with someone who’s been a friend of ours for years. Someone who’s always seemed really nice and pretty smart. That illusion, for me, was washed away after my wife told me that she was talking like Giuliani at the press conference yesterday and even crying while claiming Biden will make us a socialist nation.
re: #372 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not turn on him, but they will finally sit him down and tell him to shut up and concede already
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sure, Jan.
Not just trump. All Republicans.
🚨BREAKING: A unanimous panel of the 8th Circuit REJECTS Republican effort to undo @AngieCraigMN’s election victory.
Congratulations Congresswomen Craig on your reelection!https://t.co/Z43o1NvlFd— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 20, 2020
re: #373 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
So, i was talking to my wife who just got back from her hair appointment with someone who’s been a friend of ours for years. Someone who’s always seemed really nice and pretty smart. That illusion, for me, was washed away after my wife told me that she was talking like Giuliani at the press conference yesterday and even crying while claiming Biden will make us a socialist nation.
I have had that problem with some people lately.
re: #369 🌹UOJB!
This ass needs to be disbarred and banned from practicing law for the rest of her life. Wouldn’t hurt if she was arrested for sedition as well.
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re: #374 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sure, Jan.
They need his support to secure the run offs, after that, he will start to be an embarrassment.
re: #373 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I am surrounded by this daily, with different people. There is no reaching them, not any one thing that gets through to them, nothing is going to change their mind, so I silently enjoy the nanny state makes them wear seat belts.
Sometimes, that’s all you get.
re: #373 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
So, i was talking to my wife who just got back from her hair appointment with someone who’s been a friend of ours for years. Someone who’s always seemed really nice and pretty smart. That illusion, for me, was washed away after my wife told me that she was talking like Giuliani at the press conference yesterday and even crying while claiming Biden will make us a socialist nation.
at least people are revealing themselves
re: #379 PrairieQueen
I am surrounded by this daily, with different people. There is no reaching them, not any one thing that gets through to them, nothing is going to change their mind, so I silently enjoy the nanny state makes them wear seat belts.
Sometimes, that’s all you get.
The livelihood of the people I work with depends on the government choosing our company over others to do the job. There is only one word that describes that, and it’s the very thing they say they’re against.
re: #373 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
One out of four Americans around you believe the Earth is 6000 years old. Unless you are in San Francisco, in which case the odds are probably down around one out of ten.
However, in some counties around this country, likely the majority of people around you think the Earth is young.
So yes, never presume anyone around you is immune from delusion.
Huh.
That would bring it full circle.
Merrick Garland Could Be A Biden Pick For Attorney General, Sources Say https://t.co/yg2KbVn8Q9— Dr. John Biggan (@Biggan4Congress) November 20, 2020
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. At least 37 of my brothers and sisters have been killed in the United States alone. Over 300 of us have been killed world wide in the last year. Here are their names. They will not be forgotten.
Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2020
People believed that Trump won the popular vote in 2016 despite a three-million-vote difference
People believe Covid is a hoax or overdramatized despite 250K fatalities
Getting them to believe that Trump son again in 2020 is literally child’s play, easier than getting kids to believe that Santa came and left all those presents.
It’s Payday! Or bill paying day for Bill…
Paid the rent, paid the interest at the pawn shop, ordered a gig bag for my recently acquired acoustic guitar and wandered around a bit.
No ammo at any of the places in town - the nutjobs are still stockpiling for the hordes of non-whites to come boiling out of the big cities I guess.
The local food pantry gives a $8 voucher for meat at a couple of places in town every holiday season. I stopped at the best butcher shop in town and picked out a nice big chunk of sirloin that I had them cut in two (Thanksgiving and either Christmas or New Years, depending) and the voucher covered about half of the kilo of steaks.
Then swung by the liquor store to get rum and beer. While in the checkout line I noticed that they had a couple of bottles of Stoli in the clearance cart. $20 instead of $30+ for a 750ml bottle & I the extra so why not? I tossed the bottle in the freezer and I’ll crack it open for a nice ironic celebration on 1/20/2021 :D
re: #385 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People believed that Trump won the popular vote in 2016 despite a three-million-vote difference
People believe Covid is a hoax or overdramatized despite 250K fatalities
Getting them to believe that Trump son again in 2020 is literally child’s play, easier than getting kids to believe that Santa came and left all those presents.
There are more of us than there are of them.
re: #386 William Lewis
It’s Payday! Or bill paying day for Bill…
Paid the rent, paid the interest at the pawn shop, ordered a gig bag for my recently acquired acoustic guitar and wandered around a bit.
Congrats on the new guitar! How’s it working for you?
re: #381 Belafon
Oddly, many of the same people concerned with the socialist agenda are the first to bitch when they don’t get something provided by the government, or blame them/they for not protecting them from some scam or harm or deficiency they suffer. Give me roads to drive on and medical or housing or legal assistance, I need my damned social security because I’m disabled, but fuck welfare.//
Does this mean that Georgia Certified? I just want to put that state in the books already.
JUST IN: Georgia Secretary of State, Republican Brad Raffensperger, who describes himself as a “proud Trump supporter” affirms that Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia: “Numbers don’t lie.” https://t.co/FCJKbq5ifg pic.twitter.com/rUnBpS9GxR
— The Hill (@thehill) November 20, 2020
re: #388 makeitstop
Congrats on the new guitar! How’s it working for you?
Pretty good. I forget how big a dreadnaught is ;) but other than that the neck is good and the action required no tweaking. I can reach my bar chords easier but I really need a lot of practice though…
For some reason though, it bothers the cat more than then electric even when I’ve got the distortion cranked.
re: #390 makeitstop
Does this mean that Georgia Certified? I just want to put that state in the books already.
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Just in: The Georgia Secretary of State’ Office today certified the results for the November 3, 2020 General Election. pic.twitter.com/ouAmGg58cL
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) November 20, 2020
re: #391 William Lewis
Pretty good. I forget how big a dreadnaught is ;) but other than that the neck is good and the action required no tweaking. I can reach my bar chords easier but I really need a lot of practice though…
For some reason though, it bothers the cat more than then electric even when I’ve got the distortion cranked.
If you think guitars bother cats, try a harmonica. :)
I was honking around with one in the studio and the cats didn’t like it one bit.
It can hardly be called a press briefing when they lie their heads off, smear the legitimate press and boost their propagandists. https://t.co/sM4iGaUiNG
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 20, 2020
re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter
The GOP was wiped out in 1964 but came roaring back to win the Presidency in 1968. No matter how much we wish they were on their deathbed, they will return because this nation has settled into a two party system over the past 150 years. What we have to hope is that somehow it’s possible to purge their devotion to autocracy and oligarchy — and that won’t be possible with the current members of the party in either the House or Senate. The few who objected have not been able to gain the loyalty of the Republican base.
Very true. Republicans will be back and it won’t be long (R’s can’t shut out D’s for long either). Hopefully the worst excesses will have been purged - Dems can help by providing some accountability for the lawbreaking.
Elite, strike-force team indeed….
— Todd Eberly (@ToddEberly) November 20, 2020
re: #383 makeitstop
Huh.
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Has he ever been a prosecutor? I want a bulldog prosecutor in that position. I understand he got royally screwed, but I want someone experienced at nailing scumbags to the wall. There will be no time for on-the-job training, whomever is selected needs to hit the floor from the git go like a fucking buzz saw taking people off at the knees. If he has experience like that fine, if not I would prefer someone else.
re: #398 Eventual Carrion
Has he ever been a prosecutor? I want a bulldog prosecutor in that position. I understand he got royally screwed, but I want someone experienced at nailing scumbags to the wall. There will be no time for on-the-job training, whomever is selected needs to hit the floor from the git go like a fucking buzz saw taking people off at the knees. If he has experience like that fine, if not I would prefer someone else.
Does the AG his or her self have to be a pittbull or have those who actually do the work be so?
re: #373 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
So, i was talking to my wife who just got back from her hair appointment with someone who’s been a friend of ours for years. Someone who’s always seemed really nice and pretty smart. That illusion, for me, was washed away after my wife told me that she was talking like Giuliani at the press conference yesterday and even crying while claiming Biden will make us a socialist nation.
‘socialist’ and good chance of staying alive
vs
whatever you want to call what trump is currently doing and a good chance of dying
which would you choose?
re: #393 makeitstop
If you think guitars bother cats, try a harmonica. :)
I was honking around with one in the studio and the cats didn’t like it one bit.
My cat’s deaf. She just ignores me when I’m playing.
re: #390 makeitstop
JUST IN: Georgia Secretary of State, Republican Brad Raffensperger, who describes himself as a “proud Trump supporter” affirms that Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia: “Numbers don’t lie.
In other words, people who still insist that Trump won are liars.
Just FYI, after 48 hours of high-level conversations with Michigan Rs & Ds, it’s clear the results will stand. Joe Biden will receive the state’s 16 electoral votes. There is no alternative under MI statute. This Trump/Michigan GOP meeting is a sideshow on par w/ Rudy’s presser.
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 20, 2020
re: #252 lawhawk
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If the medicine is administered rectally, then yes, I will go along with naming it after Trump.
re: #398 Eventual Carrion
That would be someone like Loretta E. Lynch, who served under Obama. Lots of white collar stuff under her belt. I only knew of her before she became AG, but she was wicked.
re: #382 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One out of four Americans around you believe the Earth is 6000 years old. Unless you are in San Francisco, in which case the odds are probably down around one out of ten.
However, in some counties around this country, likely the majority of people around you think the Earth is young.
So yes, never presume anyone around you is immune from delusion.
there are idiots in this world
and we work with them
we work under them
they’re driving the cars around you!
we ‘let’ them run our local state and natl govts
They operate on us
They prepare and serve our food
They prescribe drugs
Fly planes
Etc
re: #399 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Does the AG his or her self have to be a pittbull or have those who actually do the work be so?
I would think those that do the work do so at the direction of the AG. And would press harder if instructed by the AG.
re: #407 Eventual Carrion
I would think those that do the work do so at the direction of the AG. And would press harder if instructed by the AG.
That is my take as well.
re: #406 dangerman
there are idiots in this world
and we work with them
we work under them
they’re driving the cars around you!
we ‘let’ them run our local state and natl govts
They operate on us
They prepare and serve our food
They prescribe drugs
Fly planes
Etc
That’s enough to bum me out for the rest of the day.
re: #399 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Does the AG his or her self have to be a pittbull or have those who actually do the work be so?
Robespierre would make a good Biden AG.
re: #398 Eventual Carrion
Has he ever been a prosecutor? I want a bulldog prosecutor in that position. I understand he got royally screwed, but I want someone experienced at nailing scumbags to the wall. There will be no time for on-the-job training, whomever is selected needs to hit the floor from the git go like a fucking buzz saw taking people off at the knees. If he has experience like that fine, if not I would prefer someone else.
they’d call every single move he made ‘political retribution’, as opposed to merely “politically motivated’
re: #401 Eventual Carrion
My cat’s deaf. She just ignores me when I’m playing.
our cats appear to be deaf all the time
Bannon working with Chinese, Giuliani working with Russians. Hmmm.
One of the main characters in this saga is Wang Dinggang, who goes by Lu De on his YouTube show. Wang was apparently the first to seed several Hunter Biden rumors that later went viral. Here is a photo of Wang that appeared on Twitter recently. Notice Bannon & Yan in the back. pic.twitter.com/vODfc7fCuz
— Amy Qin (@amyyqin) November 20, 2020
re: #402 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In other words, people who still insist that Trump won are liars.
those number arent the ‘real’ numbers //
re: #401 Eventual Carrion
Try playing the didgeridoo around your dog….they do not like it one bit.
re: #409 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That’s enough to bum me out for the rest of the day.
it’s why i never leave the house ;-)
re: #413 Dread Pirate Ron
Bannon working with Chinese, Giuliani working with Russians. Hmmm.
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We need the image processing machine from Blade Runner to see who else was there.
re: #417 Belafon
We need the image processing machine from Blade Runner to see who else was there.
Heh
Oh, that was supposed to be a GIF of the “enhance photo” scene from Blade Runner.
— Dan North (@drnorth) November 20, 2020
I saw a bumper sticker on a truck that said “Ivanka/Candace 2024”.
re: #419 Belafon
I saw a bumper sticker on a truck that said “Ivanka/Candace 2024”.
I open my junk mail folder and I see how Xtians are pushing Princess Ivanka for 2024.
Welp.
A colleague says Andrew G was at the briefing yesterday at the back of the room https://t.co/Ue7xQVBjHn
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 20, 2020
re: #420 🌹UOJB!
I open my junk mail folder and I see how Xtians are pushing Princess Ivanka for 2024.
Couldn’t they choose an actual Christian instead of just fetishizing the hot blonde bimbo daughter of the mobster boss?
re: #422 thedopefishlives
Couldn’t they choose an actual Christian instead of just fetishizing the hot blonde bimbo daughter of the mobster boss?
they need the name and the brand.
will they overlook her being married to a Jewish husband?
God works in mysterious ways
Good Aftermorning Lizards. Georgia is officially in the Biden column,woot! I suspect Governor Kemp is less than happy. Good. Of course now comes the part where they amp up breaking everything at the federal level on down as fast as they can. Before now there was a bit less urgency about things except packing the courts. Now it’s just kill it all and let God sort it out. I’m worried about health insurance being completely fucked over on Jan 1. I haven’t had the stomach to look at the current fuckery Kemp is trying to pull by removing us from the federal exchanges, but there’s no reason to think it’s going to turn out well for our little family, all 3 of us have ACA plans. I’m so tired of stressing out all the fucking time. I know it’s being done on purpose, to exhaust the public and give us PTSD, but JFC, this should have been stopped dead in its tracks by now. What the Actual Fuck?
Oh and all this shit we thought were laws but are not, like being allowed to be a seditious asshole and being allowed to still be President when all sense of Justice screams NOOOO!, needs to be remedied as soon as even remotely possible. We cannot rely on the moral compass of our fellow Americans anymore. If we ever really could in the first place. I am fast losing my patience and my belief that people can change for the better. Not seeing lots of that around me at the moment. I just want to survive this fucking pandemic and try to recreate a new normal of some sort. Sigh.
re: #366 🌹UOJB!
They are brainwashed Xtians who insist Trump is Gawd’s Anointed King over us.
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re: #422 thedopefishlives
Couldn’t they choose an actual Christian instead of just fetishizing the hot blonde bimbo daughter of the mobster boss?
No.
If Pulpit Pimps would tell my relatives to pick their boogers for Jesus they would.
re: #421 Barefoot Grin
Welp.
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Help me out here. Am I supposed to feel for the 100 reporters from that press conference of derp…I mean at this point don’t they know it’s smoke & mirrors and a red hot infectious zone?
My empathy is sorely stretched to the breaking point right now.
re: #424 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they need the name and the brand.
will they overlook her being married to a Jewish husband?
God works in mysterious ways
That’s actually a bonus in their book.
re: #426 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #424 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they need the name and the brand.
will they overlook her being married to a Jewish husband?
God works in mysterious ways
Didn’t she convert to Judaism?
re: #413 Dread Pirate Ron
Bannon working with Chinese, Giuliani working with Russians. Hmmm.
Not all Chinese are aligned with the Chinese government.
I can’t access that article, but my understanding is that Bannon has partnered with the same people behind the Epoch Times, which is controlled by the Falun Gong cult.
And yeah…..cultists in the US partnering up with cultists in China is certainly an interesting but perhaps not desirable turn of events.
re: #431 Dread Pirate Ron
Didn’t she convert to Judaism?
It doesn’t matter to the Pulpit Pimps because several of them (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) received a “divine word of knowledge” from Landrew, er, The Big G that Princess Ivanka is God’s Chosen Heir To The Throne Of the US of Fucking A….
re: #421 Barefoot Grin
At this point, I just have to be the guy from the movie “Airplane” …..Shana, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into….I say let them die!
re: #431 Dread Pirate Ron
Yep, and their kids were going to a Jewish school and were basically asked to leave for violating covid protocol the school requires by going to the White House and not giving a fuck about masks or much else beyond photo ops.
re: #428 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Help me out here. Am I supposed to feel for the 100 reporters from that press conference of derp…I mean at this point don’t they know it’s smoke & mirrors and a red hot infectious zone?
My empathy is sorely stretched to the breaking point right now.
As dangerous as it was, we needed to hear it, so we know what crap they’re trying to pull. All I’m seeing from non-fox channels is that it was crazy and dangerous.
It’s a bit like deciding if we should be sympathetic to reporters in war zones.
re: #370 makeitstop
Lincoln Project is on it.
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They didn’t even mention that Michigan law does not allow electors to change their votes “from the political party that nominated them” nor can the state legislature throw out all the ballots and appoint a new slate of electors.
re: #434 Egregious Philbin
At this point, I just have to be the guy from the movie “Airplane” …..Shana, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into….I say let them die!
James Kilpatrick, the conservative on 60 Minutes’ Point/Counterpoint segment (against Shana Alexander) in the seventies and early eighties.
BTW, this is being passed around in RW circles.
Isn’t using the DC comics logo this way a copyright infringement?
re: #438 A Three Hour Tour
I remember it well!
re: #433 🌹UOJB!
It doesn’t matter to the Pulpit Pimps because several of them (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) received a “divine word of knowledge” from Landrew, er, The Big G that Princess Ivanka is God’s Chosen Heir To The Throne Of the US of Fucking A….
YOU ARE NOT OF THE BODY! You blaspheme against Landru! Lawgivers!!! Lawgivers!!!
re: #439 Teukka
Fans need to let DC know. I doubt they want to be associated with scumbags.
re: #400 dangerman
‘socialist’ and good chance of staying alive
vs
whatever you want to call what trump is currently doing and a good chance of dyingwhich would you choose?
I’m old enough to remember that warning being made about every democratic candidate in the last 50 years. Some of them were elected. Some served two terms. No socialist state yet.
If someone says that to me, I will laugh and tell them to find another threat, that one’s used up.
(It’s time to stop acting as if what comes out of their mouths has meaning. The proper answer to their tired slogans is either a merry laugh or “And?” Since the second response is likely to get you rivers of equally tired slogans, I’d stick with the first — or maybe just say “stick a fork into it, it’s done.”)
re: #442 A Mom Anon
Fans need to let DC know. I doubt they want to be associated with scumbags.
Infringing on trademarks to own the libs. That’s a new one.
re: #442 A Mom Anon
Fans need to let DC know. I doubt they want to be associated with scumbags.
Oh I call those assholes the Q Cucks Klan.
A caller who is near tears, distraught over election results, tells Rush Limbaugh that he’s willing to die for Trump pic.twitter.com/huVu0qfcgt
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) November 20, 2020
He was “stabbed in the back.”
re: #432 Danack
Not all Chinese are aligned with the Chinese government.
I can’t access that article, but my understanding is that Bannon has partnered with the same people behind the Epoch Times, which is controlled by the Falun Gong cult.
And yeah…..cultists in the US partnering up with cultists in China is certainly an interesting but perhaps not desirable turn of events.
There was a whole piece in the NYT a few days back “wondering” about why so many Chinese “liberals” were backing Trump: those scare-quotes are quite salient: the Times’ writer seeming not to get that “anti-communist”/”anti-Chinese government” does not at all map to pat “liberal” - or even “democratic” - stances. There is a definite lobby out there of wealthy Chinese expats who are dedicated Trumpites/Republicans/RWNJs, as they love his institutionalized antagonism towards China’s government; no matter how counter-productive. Sort of analogous to the Cuban Exile Lobby’s obsessions with Castro: but better-financed…
re: #443 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
I’m old enough to remember that warning being made about every democratic candidate in the last 50 years. Some of them were elected. Some served two terms. No socialist state yet.
If someone says that to me, I will laugh and tell them to find another threat, that one’s used up.
(It’s time to stop acting as if what comes out of their mouths has meaning. The proper answer to their tired slogans is either a merry laugh or “And?” Since the second response is likely to get you rivers of equally tired slogans, I’d stick with the first — or maybe just say “stick a fork into it, it’s done.”)
agreed
socialist state is shorthand for ‘my taxes will go up to pay for stuff i dont want to pay for’
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on a House Democratic leadership call Thursday night that President Trump is a “psychopathic nut,” Politico reports.
she holds back too much
re: #448 dangerman
agreed
socialist state is shorthand for ‘my taxes will go up to pay for stuff i dont want to pay for’
And odds are that “Welfare for the [epithets]” will also become part of the conversation sooner or later….. (probably sooner)
Maybe we could call a terrible idea a “Geraldo” https://t.co/amwiLEvNvI
— Mike Royce (@MikeRoyce) November 20, 2020
re: #442 A Mom Anon
Fans need to let DC know. I doubt they want to be associated with scumbags.
I can’t confirm nor deny I have taken steps to amplify attempts at letting DC Comics know…
You may recall I mentioned a dominionist I know on FB who opposed masks and social distancing and insisted that Trump’s second term is God’s will. Reality has finally caught up with him; he contracted covid and has just been hospitalized. I feel sorry for him and his family, hope he recovers, and I hope this is a wakeup call for the people he has encouraged to flout the rules as the pandemic worsens. I know so many people who have contracted the virus.
re: #446 jaunte
“A caller who is near tears, distraught over election results, tells Rush Limbaugh that he’s willing to die for Trump.”
He was “stabbed in the back.”
I listened to the clip so you don’t have to. He feels that he was stabbed in the back by repugs, that he “has nothing left but Trump and you (Rush).” Do you suppose that means they’ll stay home or find some third party loon to vote for in the future?
One may hope….
re: #437 The Pie Overlord!
They didn’t even mention that Michigan law does not allow electors to change their votes “from the political party that nominated them” nor can the state legislature throw out all the ballots and appoint a new slate of electors.
Could the Republican members of the state board of canvassers refuse to participate to certify the election? What happens if they don’t cooperate? I don’t trust anything associated with the GOP and those in Michigan have been especially deplorable.
re: #454 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
I listened to the clip so you don’t have to. He feels that he was stabbed in the back by repugs, that he “has nothing left but Trump and you (Rush).” Do you suppose that means they’ll stay home or find some third party loon to vote for in the future?
One may hope….
Would it be wrong to sock puppet as a Georgia Republican, saying there is no point in voting in the runoff because the Democrats will just steal the Senate seats anyway?
re: #455 Hecuba’s daughter
Could the Republican members of the state board of canvassers refuse to participate to certify the election? What happens if they don’t cooperate? I don’t trust anything associated with the GOP and those in Michigan have been especially deplorable.
From what I’ve been reading, non-participation is a non-starter (the Democrats would essentially win by default), and if the Republicans continue to try to block by splitting the vote, it goes to the MI Secretary of State, who has already said she will certify.
re: #411 dangerman
they’d call every single move he made ‘political retribution’, as opposed to merely “politically motivated’
You don’t want to take someone who has a lifetime judiciary appt and move them over to the DOJ in an at-will position. Not when McConnell’s been packing the courts for years with right wingers while denying Democrats the ability to fill those seats (shrinking the courts while Obama was in office, and openly threatening to do same with Biden).
People like Yates and Bharara have had previous Senate confirmations, so for them to claim they’re not qualified is precisely the political retribution they’re claiming will happen by applying the rule of law to Trumpworld.
re: #457 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Would it be wrong to sock puppet as a Georgia Republican, saying there is no point in voting in the runoff because the Democrats will just steal the Senate sests anyway?
Given how many Russians rat fucked in 2016 and to a lesser degree 2020, no it would not be.
re: #447 Jay C
Fyi there is an ongoing generational war within the Asian communities between typically younger more liberal children and grandchildren and the older generation that fled their various homelands. The older generations voted Trump And are racist against blacks as whites can be, at least according to anecdotes all over Asian feeds and forums.
This echoes Latino communities as well.
re: #447 Jay C
There was a whole piece in the NYT a few days back “wondering” about why so many Chinese “liberals” were backing Trump: those scare-quotes are quite salient: the Times’ writer seeming not to get that “anti-communist”/”anti-Chinese government” does not at all map to pat “liberal” - or even “democratic” - stances. There is a definite lobby out there of wealthy Chinese expats who are dedicated Trumpites/Republicans/RWNJs, as they love his institutionalized antagonism towards China’s government; no matter how counter-productive. Sort of analogous to the Cuban Exile Lobby’s obsessions with Castro: but better-financed…
Yesterday I saw “person-on-the-street” interviews from Beijing by the South China Daily News. Only four people. All of them complained about Trump’s actions in some way or another, but when asked who they favored 3 out of 4 said Trump. Seem to like the Big Showman. (or fear that Biden will return to the Obama “pivot” that was supposed to keep China in line or something—who knows.)
re: #454 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Sadder yet, the vote was recounted, and the caller won’t accept the results of a recount, announced by a Republican. That’s how deranged these people have become. They simply will not accept a reality different than what they want. And then they call assholes like Rush who agree with their bullshit claims of fraud and conspiracies.
May they all FOAD, that goes double for pricks like Rush, whose years of bullshit have encouraged this.
re: #252 lawhawk
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re: #454 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
I listened to the clip so you don’t have to. He feels that he was stabbed in the back by repugs, that he “has nothing left but Trump and you (Rush).” Do you suppose that means they’ll stay home or find some third party loon to vote for in the future?
One may hope….
I so hope tRump starts a 3rd party with these loons over the next 4 years. Then as Linseed GrahamCracker said, tRump will destroy the repub party.
re: #273 dangerman
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